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That royally pissed me off. Why did I have to watch the one game that I cared about in standard def? At least they could have moved it to CNBC, which was broadcasting curling in HD.

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Hey I very much have enjoyed the curling matches this year :)

I didn't get to see the hockey game though.

I have too... especially streaming online. I just didn't think that it was a good call to have curling in HD and hockey in SD.

At least you got to see it at all. I don't get MSNBC, so I was left in the cold. However, the Russia/Czech Republic game on NBC was a decent consolation prize. Turned out to be a great game down to the last minute.

Go get it from a torrent site. It's easily available. No need to miss out.

But that's illegal. :(

But not immoral. (IMO.)

In this particular case especially it's hard to object to a torrent. It sounds like he buys TV, and there are just some gaps in the coverage offered, and he'd only be using torrents to help fill in the gaps. What harm does that do?

But then NBC can't try to charge him extra (somehow) to fill in the gaps they created in coverage. What is the world coming to when a company can't find a way to profiteer off of the mistakes that they make?

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