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Hulu, NBC Experience Glitches During Super Bowl Telecast (theverge.com)
Variety reports:
NBC's coverage of Super Bowl LII briefly went dark for nearly 30 seconds on Sunday night. NBC released a brief statement attributing the outage to an equipment failure... "We had a brief equipment failure that we quickly resolved," the statement read. "No game action or commercial time were missed." The outage happened during a commercial pause in the action between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles.
And anonymous reader shared another story from The Verge: Hulu's live TV subscription service cut off the end of tonight's Super Bowl in some markets during the climactic final moments of the Eagles/Patriots game. Tom Brady was making a last-ditch push down the field in hopes of tying the 41-33 contest when Hulu customers lost all video and audio from NBC and U.S. Bank Stadium. Not everyone experienced the abrupt cutoff, which occurred at approximately 10:00PM ET. But those who did received an error screen before the game's conclusion. Error messages ranged from "no content available" to one that said the game couldn't be shown due to rights restrictions. Complaints immediately surged on Twitter and Reddit... In a tweet, the company said there had been "a technical issue" and said users could restart their Hulu app to restore the game feed.
And anonymous reader shared another story from The Verge: Hulu's live TV subscription service cut off the end of tonight's Super Bowl in some markets during the climactic final moments of the Eagles/Patriots game. Tom Brady was making a last-ditch push down the field in hopes of tying the 41-33 contest when Hulu customers lost all video and audio from NBC and U.S. Bank Stadium. Not everyone experienced the abrupt cutoff, which occurred at approximately 10:00PM ET. But those who did received an error screen before the game's conclusion. Error messages ranged from "no content available" to one that said the game couldn't be shown due to rights restrictions. Complaints immediately surged on Twitter and Reddit... In a tweet, the company said there had been "a technical issue" and said users could restart their Hulu app to restore the game feed.
People still watch the Super Bowl?
So, who won the match after Harry fell off his broom?
It was a nice reprieve from what was otherwise a pretty underwhelming set of commercials this Super Bowl.
Brady lost. Trump lost. Can we hope ignorance lost?
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was at an party and had to hit info on cable remote (mini client box at the tv I was viewing at the time) to check and see if it has still up.
the game was good this year!
glitch? or subtle 'warning' to potential cord-cutters that cable service is 'more reliable' than that nasty old internet? /tin-foil hat
Yeh it was better than last years : "Putin is good because America is bad" interview on Foxsky Newsky. He opted out of doing a speech this year. That was the highlight of this year's SB I think.
Nunes took his turn this year, "Putin good, Carter Page good, FBI/CIA/FISA Court/'Merica bad. bad. bad". When they prosecute Carter Page as a foreign agent for Russia, Nunes should be convicted for tipping him off at to the surveillance dates.
"So, who won the match after Harry fell off his broom?"
This was before Harry. The evidence is the use of Latin numbers, "Super Bowl LII". Latin has been a dead language since the 1400s.
Black screen buffering... death happen every half an hour even without Superbowl. Then in the middle of the game, NBC Roku app told me to install NBS Sports, which took time away from interesting moments and showed the rest of the game in blurry resolution AND with more buffering deaths. I don't understand why NFL can't find a more reliable streaming partner for Superbowl. ABC does not seem to have any of these problems.
Given the pathetic ratio of play time to real time, how does losing thirty seconds matter?
Perhaps you missed an advertisement. Somewhat less likely, the commentators rambling on about next to nothing. Almost certainly not anything that involved the game, and if it was this, the endless replays should suffice.
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This is why television channels, such as Over-The-Air NBC, should be viewed as such. They're over complicating these systems with fancy apps/ cable boxes. Yes, we know all that effort arel in hopes of snooping on user viewership data (and other data on their mobile devices/tablets). The problems described in this story was not a problem with the Over-The-Air broadcasts.
Today, Superb Owl Sunday, my U-Verse went out about 12:30 PM PST. Game start is 3:30. I spent an hour rebooting things and googling (yeah, I verified my internet was working then used it). Finally the att website said U-Verse was down in my area and hold my panties for a bit. TV came back about 2:30, hour before the game starts.
That 30 second black screen looked exactly like my TV 3-4 hours earlier. I had visions of rebooting everything (a good 5-10 minute deal) to missing the rest of the game.
Burn down your own city.
Thats what the stupid nigs in philly are doing.
Because they won.... ha.
I spent an hour rebooting things
get a fucking TV antenna you loser
for $20 you can watch TV for free and it always works
you're an idiot for thinking that your mickey mouse networking is going to be reliable
your boss should read this and fire you for your inability to understand failure
was at an party and had to hit info on cable remote (mini client box at the tv I was viewing at the time) to check and see if it has still up.
The TV or your DICK?!
1. There was no interruption in the last moments. All was normal.
2. All local ads were gone. "Will resume momentarily" notice was displayed, no sound, gave us nice breaks to talk about the game and explain, again, the rules of football to our children. The child trying to be a contrarian and root for the upper dog, and pretending to be nonchalant about the game eventually developed some interest and learned what was first down.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
It was at my house and for about 15 seconds everyone was yelling at me.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
This is almost beyond comical and outright sad how there is this bred life-style of "Internetz thingie no workie" anymore, then go off the cliff in some tapping out of a pouting paragraph online like some entitled tyrant. I am almost a 7 year cord cutter, and guess what? I saw the same 30 second black-out, however, what I didn't experience is missing the last play. Why? Because the Super Bowl is an annual symbol social-and-sports cocktail of Americana, and it's going to be on everywhere, and where is it definitely being broadcast at always? Freely over-the-air on one of the Big 3 networks as long as you have an ATSC tuner or conversion into some television in your house with a $60 quality UHF/VHF antenna that's about 2 feet high.
I think that's just what-you-get when you cord cut and you're going to rely on highly scaled internet streaming services that are definitely going to see a absolutely F ridiculous RPS on the backend for something that popular. I had the same problem during NBA playoffs a few years ago using SlingTV during a very popular series; final few minutes cut out in the 4th quarter? Did my life end? No. This is to be expected with that much 'down stream' you can't control.
With great hesitation I say this, not because there's truth to it, but because of the amount of trolling anymore: it's become almost a legitimate excuse to lambaste and start some digital pitchfork rant on Twitter, Reddit or whatever-the-fuck social medium you want to use just to have something to complain about. I'm a devoted 16-week + playoffs NFL watcher for decades and I wasn't upset. The ones who were, used the Super Bowl as a social outlet and wanted some drama-talk to carry over at the water cooler in the AM.
NO such thing as 30 seconds of dead air and nothing was missed. It certainly looked like the commercial insert feed failed.
Mind you, not as bad as last year's CenturyLink outage in Gilbert AZ. On Super Bowl Sunday. For 31 hours. Without explanation.
Pretty remarkable how well a paper clip works as an HDTV OTA antenna.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
"No game action or commercial time were missed."
"Tom Brady was making a last-ditch push down the field in hopes of tying the 41-33 contest when Hulu customers lost all video and audio from NBC and U.S. Bank Stadium."
Those two claims would appear to be mutually exclusive. Either no game action was missed, or Tom Brady's last-ditch push was (at least partially) missed.
Trump ran a 30 second commercial for all the positive things he has accomplished in his first year as POTUS.
they should have shown the open title of ``Heidi'' with the audio consisting of an evil ``Mwa-ha-ha-ha''.
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We experienced a similar glitch at roughly the same time while watching the game on the Spectrum Channel on our Roku stick. The symptom in our case was the loss of video and presentation of a blue screen asking "Do you want to keep watching..." and a single button labeled "Keep Watching". Clicking the button restored the video immediately. Audio was never interrupted.
One of the biggest abusers and mishandlers of the USA economy, the NFL, had a glitch that affected a small percentage of recipients with numerous available work around.vif the Superbowl was so important to the viewer they would have had ota set up as secondary failover in the first place. Redundancy with failover is due diligence in any personal endeavor. To listen to football fans complain , you would think someone's jonesing over some heroin and then you slap your forehead in dishustwhen you realize that they're just talking about watching some guys screw off with ball. Man our country raises some damaged people
Fancy that millions of viewers let down i was in baan suan lalana watching this