{"id":159,"date":"2008-08-07T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/UseMediaCenterToSeeOnlyTheOlympicEventsYouEnjoy.aspx"},"modified":"2008-08-07T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:27:21","slug":"use-media-center-to-see-only-the-olympic-events-you-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/use-media-center-to-see-only-the-olympic-events-you-enjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Media Center to see only the Olympic events you enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/347125695_DH5rZ-X3.jpg\"> Now this is just pretty damn cool, Windows Media Center, NBC and TVTonic have collaborated to provide Summer Olympic coverage delivered direct to your Media Center (and through that to your Xbox too).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Paula asked the important question: &#8220;Why should I care? I&#8217;ll just TiVo it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>True, you can get the Olympics via TV broadcast (and time-shifted via your PVR of choice) or on demand from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/\">NBC&#8217;s site<\/a>.&nbsp; The thing I think is a killer feature is that you can specify the events you want to watch instead of having to fast forward through an hour of equestrian events just to watch track and field (or vice versa).&nbsp; Heck, you don&#8217;t even need a TV tuner card to get the programming (most of it in ED and lots in HD).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/347125696_EekQ9-S.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Sure, there are limits: you have to be in the US and you have to have Vista Media Center (32 bit only).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081220130557\/http:\/\/www.tvtonic.com:80\/olympics\/install\/\">Get the full run down from TVTonic&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is just pretty damn cool, Windows Media Center, NBC and TVTonic have collaborated to provide Summer Olympic coverage delivered direct to your Media Center (and through that to your Xbox too).&nbsp; Paula asked the important question: &#8220;Why should I care? I&#8217;ll just TiVo it.&#8221; True, you can get the Olympics via TV broadcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idletv","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}