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Thanks for this Roger and I like the openness about the tickets.

Btw the way, what is editorial line regarding Radio4's Paul Lewis and ´óÏó´«Ã½ News's James Pearce and their parallel communication of availability of tickets from European ATRs?

I note that James (Twitter: @pearcesport) has said very little about in his reports, both in studio and out but Paul has been very vocal about it on Moneybox or on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Breakfast or ´óÏó´«Ã½ News. However, James has been superb on Twitter re: European ATR news. Is there a reason why he hasnt said much about it on TV? James really has had the inside track and has been an inspiration regarding his information. Since his 1st tweets about the French & German sellers back in late may/early June he opened a whole new world to us on Twitter and we havent looked back since then.... in fact... no, I won't say anymore ;-)

Thanks again for the info - can't wait to see the studios in action.

John W (Twitter: @volshy)

Roger - are the tickets you returned being put on sale to the General Public in this round of resales (in theory you're reselling them!) or are they being held onto until LOCOG sell more tickets later in Spring?

Separately - will the Studio be based inside the park itself, much like NBC's studio in Athens 2004? A stone's throw from the stadium with a big outside area to meet the fans?

My concern here is the presentation studio. A major critisism of ´óÏó´«Ã½ sports coverage and in particular the Olympics is that they spend too much time in the studio pontificating. Last time I often would turn over to Eurosport to find them showing importent events while the ´óÏó´«Ã½ was stuck in the studio with so called experts. Why not do away with the studio and show more action.

Actually I think the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Olympic coverage is going to very poor. As far as I can see only one HD channel will be available at a time. That is pathetic. As someone who is accustomed to watching all my sport in HD the thought of watching SD is not very appealing. At least I suppose we have Eurosport with much higher quality pictures.

It is even worse when you consider that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is going to supply Super HD pictures for Japaneese viewers and 3D pictures are going to be available for American viewers. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ needs to start concentrating on delivery to licence fee payers.

Thanks for the update Roger - always appreciated and good to know that your unneeded tickts have been returned to LOGOG.

(PS the 'latest news' from the 2012 Blog and London 2012 on thr Olypis Sport page is stuck on 16th December !)

@Roger Mosey

I was not aware that that ´óÏó´«Ã½ One HD and ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD were being turned over to the Olympics. I don't think many licence payers who are not interested in the Olympics will be very pleased.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ internet streams cannot be considered to be HD quality even if they are called HD.

Hi Roger

Just a side issue with regard to the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s build up to the Olympic Games. Will there be an opportunity for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to show (perhaps on the red button in the weeks prior to the games starting) some classic Olympic footage (maybe all the track and field finals?) from the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s gigantic sporting archive? It has always seemed a real pity to me that this sort of historic footage is squirreled away by the TV companies, presumably at the behest of a spaghetti plate of red tape and the IOC juggernaut. Showing this past footage (or as much as the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has, perhaps starting with the iconic 1968 Games from Mexico City) would be cheap and would represent a commitment to the heritage of the Olympic Games, a heritage that we should all have access to, especially leading up to the first Olympic Games in this country for over half a century. It would also offer significantly better entertainment than some of the other offerings put out on some of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s channels over recent months (I do not pay my license fee to have Election Night '79 replayed on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Parliament channel)...

Not a gripe - just a utopian wish-list!

Cam Bowie

Roger,

I am confused by trevorjharris' post. Will the ´óÏó´«Ã½ be 'providing' Super HD and 3D to outside unilateral broadcasters such as NHK or NBC, or are those services produced by those unilaterals (or by the OBS and/or Panasonic) and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is taking the feeds and displaying them?

Also a post on the cooporation and dealings with the OBS might be illuminating to some. It seems many still think that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is the "Host Broadcaster" providing the feed to the world rather than the "Rights Holding Broadcaster" in the host nation.

Thanks!

@Trevorjharris

So at first your problem is the lack of HD Channels to support the Olympics, and then when you discover there will in fact be two channels for it as well as the internet streams, that suddenly becomes an issue? It appears you are finding problems for problems sake.

I regularly watch HD TV online without problems (And yes, it is true HD) and in all likelihood this is where I shall be watching most of the Olympic coverage. I trust the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to do a good job with it, as they always do.

@Connor Dalgarno

Yes 2 HD channels is better than one but until we see the schedules we won't realy know what the HD coverage is. In any case only a small proportion of output will be available in HD.

Clearly you are happy with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ streams but I would disagree that 720p25 with a bitrate of 3mb/s can be considered HD.

I don't agree with your assessment that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ does a good job. During the last Olympics there was too much time spent in the studio with the so called experts when some major events were going on tin the Stadium. This year they have Hue Edwards heading the comentry team hardly known for his knowlege of sport. In fact I watched most of the last Olympics on Eurosport HD which I thought had better coverage dispite the adverts. Eurosport also deliver a better picture quality.