TiVo : BBC Olympic Channels Now Showing..

[muppetman11]

The app is excellent and functions perfect on TIVO , the Olympics is well covered on it with highlights , news , medal tables and live feeds. The whole look/layout is miles nicer than the traditional red button , I'm sure the BBC will improve the Internet feed.

[andy_m]

I'm sure they said recently that, where available, they would be using HD video for the app, but I've yet to see any evidence of that, including during their Wimbledon coverage and Formula One. Whilst on that subject, I was particularly irritated yesterday to find that, despite launching 24 dedicated Olympic HD channels and having numerous streams online and behind the red button, they couldn't find a spare hour on either BBC one HD or the BBC HD channel to show their Grand Prix qualifying highlights. Good job I have a wishlist and not a series link!

That said, I think that after the debacle of the Jubilee the BBC are currently outdoing themselves as far as their Olympic coverage is concerned. 24 HD channels as I said, excellent online coverage, the android/iPhone app is superb and actually I just found myself in the car for the climax of the women's cycling road race and the radio coverage was incredibly good as well - really exciting!

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by Telly_

I think it because it's not a dedicated TiVo app, it's the smart tv app shoe horned into TiVo. Might be wrong though.

Nice spin there, again

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by andy_m

despite launching 24 dedicated Olympic HD channels and having numerous streams online and behind the red button, they couldn't find a spare hour on either BBC one HD or the BBC HD channel to show their Grand Prix qualifying highlights. Good job I have a wishlist and not a series link!

Unfortunately they have to consider Freeview households who don't have access to the extra channels

[andy_m]

I think they could have considered the fact that they have not just one but two hd channels available on freeview, and the qualifying highlights programme was just 1 hour and 15 minutes long out of the whole day. I reckon the interest in Formula One is greater than men's team archery, as good as it was to see Italy beat first Korea and then the States, the nature of the Hungarian Grand Prix means that a Brit effectively won it on the Saturday and the BBC couldn't find even an hour to show the highlights in hd. They've managed to find it today for what was effectively a procession!

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Edit. Italy beat USA, who had themselves beaten South Korea.

[Telly_]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

The app is excellent and functions perfect on TIVO , the Olympics is well covered on it with highlights , news , medal tables and live feeds. The whole look/layout is miles nicer than the traditional red button , I'm sure the BBC will improve the Internet feed.

I know the app is excellent I have on my smart TV it's great to see its also running excellent on TiVo.

An yes people smart TV's have the full BBC Sport app as it was designed for smart Tv's I'm not talking about the red button but the full sport app.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by andy_m

...they couldn't find a spare hour on either BBC one HD or the BBC HD channel to show their Grand Prix qualifying highlights. Good job I have a wishlist and not a series link!

According to DigiGuide they didn't show qualifying from Canada back in June either so I'm not sure you can exactly blame the Olympics coverage for that

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

Unfortunately they have to consider Freeview households who don't have access to the extra channels

Then there's that too.

[andy_m]

@telly correct, in fact BBC red button on TiVo is essentially just a short cut to the BBC for connected TV app.

@Carl grrrrrrr....

[xtopher]

Some of my Olympics HD unwatchable with severe pic breakup and poor sound with loud high frequency clicks that hurt ones ears! Anyone else experiencing?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by xtopher

Some of my Olympics HD unwatchable with severe pic breakup and poor sound with loud high frequency clicks that hurt ones ears! Anyone else experiencing?

That's likely to be a signal issue that affects only you. You'll need to report it to VM.

[windy]

Iam watching GBR V URU and GBR play better then england why not let these guys play for us.

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by windy

Iam watching GBR V URU and GBR play better then england why not let these guys play for us.

The fears of the FAW and the SFA realised in one post!