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Old 05-11-09, 08:22 AM
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if you're viewing in Internet Explorer...

during the 20sec intro, double-click on the video to make it fullscreen. Then it will properly translate to the live feed. That worked for me.
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thanks bdcheung.. i couldn't get it either. why did they make it so tricky, wth.
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can anybody tell me why in stage 2 (which i am watching now) scarselli goes out by himself for the early part of the race only to end up dead last? only thing i can figure is the airtime he gave to his sponsers and for popularizing his own name; he was a rolling advertisement for ISD, Selle Italia, and Specialized

197 SCARSELLI Leonardo ITA ISD 3:53:42 10:35

btw FF failed for me; universal actually says FF won't work; i'm using ie 6 with security dropped, updated flash, and cookie freedom - talk about a morals compromise - i've sullied my laptop for cycling porn
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cyclingweekly says....

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It helped that Leonardo Scarselli (ISD) spent much of the day out on a lone break, and therefore scooped up the top points and time bonuses before the sprinters came through.

Scarselli's solo effort was inevitably doomed as the bunch - propelled by the sprinters' teams - reeled him as the race hit Trieste. Still, it gave Scarselli's ISD squad a nice bit of early TV coverage.
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OK, I'm an idiot and couldn't get the universal feed to play on my mac. As near as I can tell, I probably need some quicktime codec plug-in (I get the big "Q" then it stops). Has anyone run into this?

At least I've got the eurosport uk coverage, so there are other options.. Today's stage finish was great!
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Originally Posted by mikerhymeswith
can anybody tell me why in stage 2 (which i am watching now) scarselli goes out by himself for the early part of the race only to end up dead last? only thing i can figure is the airtime he gave to his sponsers and for popularizing his own name; he was a rolling advertisement for ISD, Selle Italia, and Specialized
Being off the front solo for hours on live European television (and picking up prime money along the way) beats the hell out of hiding anonymously in the pack and finishing 4th in a bunch sprint, which only gets your helmet/sunglass covered dome in the finish photos. I'm sure it was worth much more than his GC win in the 2003 Tour of Senegal.
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Originally Posted by Grasschopper
Pretty sure the UCI said it wasn't a legal design and Cervelo is redesigning it. I heard that a wile back...like right after the product announcement.
There is 1 Cervelo Rider on one in the Giro, they are not using the water box drink thing though. There was a standard water bottle cage attached.
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it worked yesterday for me, but today it's only audio! wth!

nevrmind, clicked it a whole bunch and it eventually gave me video.
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Originally Posted by deadly downtube
it worked yesterday for me, but today it's only audio! wth!

nevrmind, clicked it a whole bunch and it eventually gave me video.
i'm only getting audio under OS X and Safari - worked fine on Monday...

stupid Web monkeys can't even do cross-platform network video feeds correctly...

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EDIT: GOT THE FOLLOWING:

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the stream for the Giro d'Italia. We hope to have this issue resolved soon and we appreciate your patience in this process.

If you are receiving the rbc error please try the following. Click ok on the rbc error button and then click stop on the media player, and then play on the media player. If this does not work please let us know.


IT WORKED!
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I gave up this morning and just used Eurosport. Not as good quality but at least I got to see it.
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Originally Posted by deadly downtube
it worked yesterday for me, but today it's only audio! wth!

nevrmind, clicked it a whole bunch and it eventually gave me video.
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I gave up this morning and just used Eurosport. Not as good quality but at least I got to see it.
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Hope everyone is enjoying the coverage of the Giro from Universal Sports! Here are some quick links where you can watch highlights of Stages 4 and 5. Great stuff!
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I've been loving the Univ. Sports coverage of the Giro on TV... Much better than Versus.
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Anyone else having trouble with the Universal feed this morning? I'm just getting the Loading daisy wheel. The alternate Universal feeds via cyclingfans also aren't working for me. Now watching the low rez RAI feed via justintv.

BTW, aside from the DiLuca/Petacchi foul up the other day, I've been enjoying the coverage and commentary on Universal; that's gotta be a tough gig doing 2.5 hours of cycling commentary all alone.
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I'm watching the feed
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working for me.
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The commentator on Universalsports really is a ******bag. It actually adds quite some comedy to the coverage.
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Did he say something about not being able to cover the Giro in France?
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Commentator: "And here is Armstrong in the pack. Winning the Tour de France 4 times in a row.. uhhh.. make that 5... he won from 1999 to 2005 7 times in a row."
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Arrrgh....trying for the last 20 minutes, but the feed won't load for me this morning. Blank screen with the spinning "loading" icon. Tried refreshing several times, but no go. Overloaded servers? Other web pages loading just fine.
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Arrrgh....trying for the last 20 minutes, but the feed won't load for me this morning. Blank screen with the spinning "loading" icon. Tried refreshing several times, but no go. Overloaded servers? Other web pages loading just fine.
Same for me today. I had to hunt around for Eurosport with commentary in english
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i dunno why folks have trouble finding feeds... Steephill.tv has a big list of them. restricted.. unrestricted.. if they are in english or not.

today the Eurosport and Universal video were pretty sync'd up so i listed to Sean kelly and whoever on Euro and watched the bigger and better video on Universal (safari on Mac) worked great.

wtf is with the Universal guy's inflection? every sentence ends in AHHHH!
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