Ever hear of Firefox 3? Yeah, so have I. Too bad NBC is still in the goddamn Neolithic.
You have got to be kidding me.
I was thinking I’d mosey over to their website, as much as I generally decry centralized media repositories, and see whether I couldn’t stream a bit of live coverage of the Olympics. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but the homepage seemed promising:
See that hopeful little tidbit about downloading clips in HD? Unfortunately that’s probably locked down with DRM, or at the very least a proprietary downloading application. Too bad I can’t tell you for sure, because the freaking page won’t load!
Does NBC really think it can keep going like this? This is the freaking Olympics. Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,002,530 times on the first day of its release, and still NBC doesn’t think it’s a priority that their website work with it.
Maybe NBC still thinks televised coverage is the way of the future.
Here’s NBC’s feedback address, so let ‘em have it:
feedback@nbcolympics.com
I’ve already sent my email.
I’m almost more surprised that they check for Firefox, instead of just “IE or bust!”
E-mail sent. I made sure to mention Theora as a video format, as Firefox 3.1 should support it natively, but I can’t really imagine that happening.
I agree that it’s something that they’re even aware of the existence of Firefox, but that makes it all the more bothersome! They know it’s there and yet continue to act this stupid.