YouTube to power 3,000-hour Olympics live streaming for NBCMarch 8, 2012 - 10:45 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - More than 3,000 hours of live streaming footage from the Olympics will be broadcast online, making it the most live content, by far, ever to be broadcast from the global competition. As Slash Gear reports, citing NBC’s preliminary Olympics website, viewers will also be able to replay content online. In other words, there will be more online video than ever before, and it’s sure to drive page views to NBC.com like the site has never seen. Apparently the streaming technology will be powered by YouTube, but the streams will only be available on the NBC site. During the 2010 Olympics, viewers for the first time ever were able to watch coverage of the games from their mobile phones. However, the actual depth of content that was available online was limited. NBC wanted people to tune into its own TV network and its sister networks. The mobile and online aspects were more for text-based updates and keeping track of medal counts, and so forth. Now, though, monetizing streaming video is a much more viable option, and NBC will no doubt make a killing there, the report says. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Iran’s Red Crescent sends aid to Armenia’s flood-hit regions The Iranian Red Crescent Society has sent humanitarian aid to the victims of deadly floods that hit northern Armenia on May 25-26. Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. |