I'd like to add my voice to those locals who have been bitching about the quality of the Olympic coverage available in Bermuda.
My particular grouse is our inability to get any high definition coverage. All NBC coverage is being offered in HD in the US. So why not here?
I got a random tele-marketing call from someone at Cablevision a couple of weeks ago asking if I was interested in subscribing to their HD tier. They didn't ask if I had an HD TV, and when I told them "no" they didn't ask why, the fools. (Ditto for the call I got from them asking if I was interested in their broadband service, but that's another post.)
I should be one of the people who are snapping up their HD service. I do have an HD TV and would be willing to fork out the cash for decent HD content. The reason I told them "no", however, is that their content still sucks. Fox is the only one of their meagre selection of HD channels that we might actually want to watch. Had they offered the Olympics in HD, however, we would have signed up in a flash.
Now according to Tryangle, ZBM have exclusive rights to broadcasting the Olympics in Bermuda through their membership in the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC). Presumably this explains why much of the coverage has been Caribbean. However my wife assures me that there's been plenty of NBC coverage on channel 9 too (possibly to fill in gaps in the CMC coverage?).
So even if the CMC isn't available in HD, we could have been offered the NBC stuff that way. Did ZBM or Cablevision even try to make this happen? I don't know, but a golden opportunity for Cablevision to boost uptake of their service, and to drive HD adoption in Bermuda, has been lost.
