Starclimber

I thought Tom was far more the benevolent Godfather than the hard working domestique at KBK. He coulda crushed any of those guys. Utterly amazing talent.

RockyMtnMerlin

So I paid the modest fee to get the "premium" feed. Today I wanted to watch the end of the world TT championships. So I go over to the premium archive and start it up. It is totally broken up and the sound track is in slow motion (again I have DSL that consistently tests at 1.2 megs download). SO I say heck with that and go over to the WC RR. Not broken up but about every five minutes they interrupt the coverage for an advertisement. And the "picture" is no better than it was on the free channel. At this point I would say that I am disappointed with the "new" cycling.tv

DrWJODonnell

Ok, it should be clarified, part II of the championship time trial is a mess (the audio), but it is and has been the same for that same segment on the free channel. It is just the way they have that feed set up. Turn the volume down on that one or you will want to cry. All of the segments will likely have the advertisements, but, frankly, I get great deals on accelerade and endurox through those ads. And both of these races were from last year and were found on th efree channel last year (I don't think these are necessarily part of the upgrade).

Right now, the premium sucks. BUT, they are just a bit behind schedule getting the necessary items over there (such as A Sunday in Hell). The live race on Sunday was a better quality feed than the free one, and I have no doubt that things will get better as they catch up with the premium stuff.

And as I had said before, I have use so much of their bandwidth, I think it is certainly worth supporting them as they may be the last bastion of ANY good cycling coverage in the English language left on earth. (Sorry if I was Dramatic there).

RockyMtnMerlin

Points well presented and well taken.

worker4youth

Not dramatic at all. It's true.

Trsnrtr

Hmmm... I run it in Firefox 1.5.0.1 with Suse 10.0