Chess Olympiad TV
Dresden, Germany
Official Olympiad Website: www.Dresden2008.com
Now everybody can follow the Chess Olympiad – without even being in Dresden!It was about time, but now the Chess Olympiad finally has its own TV channel where you can watch matches, highlights, interviews and portraits 24 hours a day.
We recommend you to download the player now – because if you should experience any problems with the player, we can help you before the event and the actual broadcast of the content starts.
To view Chess Olympiad TV you need a Windows-based computer (Vista or XP), an updated version of Windows Media Player and a 2Mbit download Internet connection.
To download the player use the following link or on the logo below and be first in line for the big launch shortly after the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
This is too cool!
What does it cost?
It’s free.
The Olympics will feature at least 200 players who are better at the game than you are. How does that make you feel?
‘It’s free.’
And probably full of viruses, damn german spyware. Why would anyone trust a german?? Don’t you rememember World War II and the monsters from Germany? These are their descendants.
Must be a special kind of horrible W32.Trojan.E2E4 penetrating into you computer and sending out chess-related spam.
The first thing which came to my mind is, why don’t they simply offer standard video streaming?
The download (installer) is only 739 KB. The installation path is adjustable. It installs 1.07 MB. Both my virus shield nor the manual AV scan did not cause warnings.
The bad news: It requires a registration. My opinion: Free TV does not require registration to watch. So I uninstalled it again.
I already had to make more registrations then I wanted to make, like for downloading bugfixes for some software etc.etc. I want to limit the number of registrations I do, to the absolute minimum.
A sidenote: The viewer creates a user directory under ..UsersusernameAppPathLocalTadaah which is not removed automatically if you uninstall.
(Not a big problem but I mention it only for people who like complete uninstalls.)
it didnt work when I tried it.
It works fine for me. The programming starts tomorrow.
Question to the historian:
What went wrong? or what did not work?
Hi,
does anybody
– including Susan, who is currently in Dresden –
recently be able to set up a new user with Version 380 of Tadaah TV?
I am just getting messages like “user already known”
regardingless what I type for a new user name.
Is that all a fake?!
thanks in advance