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psuaero
02-22-06, 06:09 AM
Why does the Tour of CA come on so late on the east coast? I keep forgetting to set the VCR (yeah, no Tivo) after my wife finishes watching the Olympics or tapes of Olympics.

Is there any place I can download the ESPN2 coverage online and watch it later?

Dead Extra #2
02-22-06, 07:50 AM
Well, even if you remember to set your VCR, you could still be screwed. Last night ESPN2 pushed the coverage back a little over 10 minutes to cover some assinine, obscure college basketball game. So, when I watched the race all I got was about 46 minutes of boring as hell coverage of a 2-man breakaway and then 4 minutes of footage of the peleton on the final laps right up until, (you guessed it) about 30 seconds BEFORE the finish.
gvonne
02-22-06, 08:06 AM
I'm also on the east coast and I feel your pain(no TIVO). It being on late as hell and showing one hour of a three to four hour event doesnt help, but the jumping around of the time slot is what got me this morning. Got up at 2am to find that i missed the whole damn 2nd stage! I give up I'll just read the posts from you guys to find out what happened.

derath
02-22-06, 08:35 AM
Well, even if you remember to set your VCR, you could still be screwed. Last night ESPN2 pushed the coverage back a little over 10 minutes to cover some assinine, obscure college basketball game. So, when I watched the race all I got was about 46 minutes of boring as hell coverage of a 2-man breakaway and then 4 minutes of footage of the peleton on the final laps right up until, (you guessed it) about 30 seconds BEFORE the finish.

Yea and that finish was SWEEET
derath
02-22-06, 08:37 AM
By the way, I guess if there is some interest (I don't want to totally kill my connection) I could put up a small version somewhere so you could grab it. I have a homegrown PVR so the files are on my computer and I by default shrink them down so they will play on my windows mobile phone so I can enjoy them at work :)

-D
Dead Extra #2
02-22-06, 08:45 AM
That would be great!
Dead Extra #2
02-22-06, 09:27 AM
I caught the sprint on the Amgen site(looks like the site is improving). Haedo was flying at the finish!!
derath
02-22-06, 09:33 AM
Alright. I just need to figure out a good place to put them. They are about 100mb each. If I had the capacity I would just let everyone stream them, but alas I don't

-D