NBC Olympics on the Go brings the Games to Vista Media Center users

We've got this sneaking suspicion that we'll be forced to digest bucketfuls of Olympics news as the run-up to August continues, and Wavexpress is making sure our thoughts are accurate. Said outfit has just announced a partnership with NBC that will see the former "develop, host and support a service for viewing NBC's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Microsoft's Windows Vista Media Center." The NBC Olympics on the Go will utilize Wavexpress' TVTonic internet video application to enable Media Center users to "watch channels of NBC's coverage of Olympic events in up-to-HD quality on the go on their laptop." As expected, the service will be free to all who choose to take advantage, but this time you'll actually need to download the TVTonic application (versus just logging in via the web portal).

NBC Olympics on the Go brings the Games to Vista Media Center users

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 23rd 2008 6:56PM]

looks pretty cool although i wish they would have just put it on the internet tv section in media center so i wouldnt need to run tvtonic (as it looks like i will have to do from the press release)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 23rd 2008 8:45PM]

it's a shame that TvTonic isn't even capitable with all versions of the Vista OS --- no support for 64bit.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 23rd 2008 8:58PM]

Yeah dude, its little things like that that keep me from using Vista 64 instead of Vista 32.

Shame too, because TVTonic got a LOT better since I used it last, but it requires a good, fast connection to be able to watch any of the content right away instead of having it cache some for you. And it integrates so well in Media Center, you'd think it was a core part to begin with.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 24th 2008 2:22AM]

Damn, I hadn't even thought about the Vista64 issue. I'm running 64 bit on my video capable machine, and certainly am not going to think about 32 bit. (I'm running 32 bit on my laptop that's only got 2Gig ram)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2008 11:44PM]

Download TVTonic trailer and/or download Silverlight...

NBC TVTonic introduction...
http://www.tvtonic.com/media/nbco_intro/index.html

To install Silverlight go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/Silverlight/Install.aspx

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 3rd 2008 7:39PM]

Does this allow fast forwarding?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 7th 2008 7:15PM]

I REALLY wish this supported 64 bit :(