Why do broadcasters of the Olympics make it so hard to watch the Olympics? ("The
Couch: Keep Your Spoilers to Yourselves," The Winter Olympics, Feb.
18.)
If I tune in to NBC, I have to watch
two sports that I'm not interested in for every one that I am. If I try to watch
just Olympic snowboarding on the Web, I have to download some special
"Silverlight" video technology from Microsoft instead of watching with the video
programs that I am already accustomed to, like YouTube, Hulu and Vimeo.
Don't these people realize that the
way we consume media—especially the way kids consume media—has changed? We want
to watch what we want to watch when we want to watch it.
Virginia Citrano
Verona, N.J.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 