After being a poor excuse for a Tar Heel fan throughout the year, I promised myself I'd catch every possible Carolina game during March Madness.

At home, I don't have cable, so I generally go out to the bars to catch games. But today, CBS had blacked out the Carolina game in favor of the Washington/Purdue game (no real surprise, since it *is* a West Coast team).

Much to my surprise, ALL the March Madness games are streamed from ncaa.com! The site's using Silverlight to stream the games, and I am pretty surprised at high how quality the video is - it's just like watching TV. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get Silverlight installed on my Mac PPC, so I had to come into the office and watch the game on my office laptop - I hope nobody is on my floor, hearing from the random yells of joy (and anguish) as I watch the Carolina/LSU game.

Kudos to CBS and kudos to the Silverlight team (now please make it work on my Mac!)

Posted by roy on March 21, 2009 at 04:39 PM in Ramblings, Sports | 8 Comments

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PM5K (guest)

Comment posted on March 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 PM
You don't have any kind of tv out or vga in on your tv?
Comment posted on March 24th, 2009 at 01:02 AM
I do, but just not a laptop to connect it to :) (G4 tower is across the room)
Comment posted on March 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 PM
We definitely had one game going on a big screen and 3 other games streaming on our laptops from ncaa.com

Too bad UCLA was a big fail this year...

But good luck to NC! :]

Timmy Huynh (guest)

Comment posted on March 22nd, 2009 at 06:17 PM
the newest version of silverlight required to watch the MMOD games is not compatible with PPC processors. It's quite unfortunate. I tried literally everything this summer go get it to work with my 12" PB while the Olympics were on.
Comment posted on March 22nd, 2009 at 05:17 PM
it works with my mac....

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2009 at 05:31 PM
do you have the intel-based macs or the ppc? i, unfortunately, have an old mac, and i can't seem to find the dl link to get the newer versions of silverlight installed on my machine! :(

sanjuro (guest)

Comment posted on March 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 AM
High how!
Comment posted on March 21st, 2009 at 10:26 PM
dude, it was a fun game to watch.