By now we all know that MTV/VH1's coverage of Live8 sucked. Hardcore. All people, critics, and bloggers are letting the world know that AOL did had the best coverage of Live8 hands down. They streamed all the events live and will continue to for the entire summer. There's a great article about it here. Do you agree that AOL ripped MTV a new one? Let us know!
Critics rave over AOL's coverage, rant over MTV's
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. I couldn't agree less.
I attempted to get the AOL streams on about 6 different ocassions throughout the day on Saturday, and got nothing. I'm hearing similar reports from others.
Of course, they're hardly going to report that the streaming didn't work, and since the audience is so distributed, the quality of service is difficult to accurately mesasure.
3. Funny, after I installed Windows Media Player 10 on my sis' laptop, I could switch between streams with ease.
Maybe you should check your system specs before complaining about AOL.
Posted at 3:17PM on Jul 5th 2005 by Colin
4. MTV/VH1's coverage was the worst I have ever seen. The VJ's seemed oblivious to what was really going on. Cutting the music acts in the middle of songs???? C'mon you guys!!! Pumping up the reunion of Pink Floyd and then cutting to commercial in the middle of Comfortably Numb?????? WTF!?!?!?!??!
At least Live Aid was broadcast without commercials!!! And why were there commercials during Live 8?? Who's getting that money? Hmmm.....Viacom maybe?????
AOL is the true champion here. I want my MTV/VH1.........IN THE TOILET!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted at 4:45PM on Jul 5th 2005 by Jonny E.
5. it was suppose to be a tv show...Snap
it was suppose to be a tv show ..rehearsed..scripted and ready to perform...you all missed the point ..
all the pefomers planned before hand to cut away at the crucial points...so no one...no one is able to bootlegg the show and get the profits...the performers did a tv show and they knew and planned it that away...
even when they cut away during the arp solo of won't get fooled again (which i have seen played lived with moonie in the band...then kenny jones ..then simon phillps...all vesions live...) with out moon playing his incredible outrageous drum parts...a vj talking was as good as anything just the arp solo...the arp is playing all by itsel it is a machine that is triggered...now who is playing to a click track live in front of your face ....
pink floyd was ready to give that perfect performance they gave and show how it was just like playing in the studio and having it viewed....the pink floyd sound was perfect....
the perfomers all rehearsed how this would go down..tv never works with out a script...actually what you are seeing is a stage play(s) from around the world...the actors / performers had their "show" together...
as the audience that i am i am thrilled to be on the audience side of this live direct to you in your face tv shots...of these performers playing their hearts out...what passion
they planned this show for 6 weeks ..i say big hand to all who pulled it off
it still is about some person is dead even as i write this and you read it....very sad indeed..
peace love harmony
drumming in CA
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it was a Paul concert...live to all the world
it was a Beatle..Paul and his many friends all over the world who gave you several live concerts all at one time..just like the 1st ed sullivan show 41 years ago...
even that 1st show had a saturday afternoon dress rehearsal with all the camera angles figured out and cutting to commercial breaks back in 1964..cause it is TV....it runs like a stage play...only the camera sends it to you..
at one point my time of 1:30 pm was in sync with the clock in london showing it was 9:30 pm...exactly 8 hrs difference....my puter was at 9:30 sync also..
since the tv signals were bouncing off the satellites
and being broadcast to me....pink floyd was finished with the 1st song and on the internet feed...they were about 35 seconds behind as my feed came over he phone line...
i saw .... roger waters say thank you twice...within 35 seconds space....that is 11 hungry people.....
be happy paul was willing to get up and do a show for you....and all his and bob geldoff's friend's said lets try it..
the biggest thing at the live-aid event in 1985 was will phil collins arrive from england in time to play with page plant, and jones....he made.....it ...
again i say thank you for a really big show well done
peace
drummerinCA
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commercials can be ignored...poverty can not
since i am the champion of a beatles show well produced and sent to the wide world via tv...which i have 2 vhs tapes of the entire 8 hours that has such great musical moments i can re-watch it any time without going on line. ...i can pause it...
but best of all...i can fast forward thru the commercials
the trick is to ignore them in the 1st place and never let them get the upper hand ...you can always look away and then come back....
i have done this for years....
commercials can be ignored.
.poverty any where in the world...usa...africa..russian federation....paris...london must not be ignored...
i have been on stage since i have been 14 (i am now 57) playing in bands for a live audience...for the love of music always...
this was a remarkable show ...and i ahve my own vhs copy...only with tv....
poverty can be beaten
snap
DrummerinCA
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that is the point...tv....
it is a stupid tv show...just like all of them...but with out them...most of the world could not connect...or inform each other..or see the beatles play live the 1st time...
the planners of the show knew what tv would do..they planned it ..eveybody knows what tv does it lets you see great things but you always have to put with the crap commercials, etc....it is a planned event...thru the eyes of the camera only...
even the streaming video feed now available on the net...still the net is trying to get a visual picture to each one of us so we can see and learn ...
see and learn....it is teleporting a picture to you...
so is the internet...when the net jams as it does ..cause too much traffic... peple trying to see...
tv is what is no more no less...
.it was a live beatls gig just like the one they played at apple rooftop gig...now where was bbc tv when that event happened ??????????????
snap...too many people are hugry again and still......
peace love harmony
drummerinCA
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stop complaining !!!!!
please see my post of .. a really big show....
where but on my tv was i able to hear and see david gilmore's inspired guitar playing...see the shimmer of lights of cymbals...get a behind or over head shot of many of the drummers playing..even if only briefly...you all miss the great advances that made all this possible...the sound and camera angles all so well timed....and clear as a big ben's bell...
no where could any you have seen such close up action of the performers except on exceptional muscial programing that mtv and vh1...
remember the you were suppose to be interrupted !!!!
snap every 3 seconds snap
DrummerinCA
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RE: stop complaining !!!!!
i saw early zep as the new yardbirds in college in 1968..
then i saw zep live when they played kansas city, mo the 1st time
i was prepared for the interruption..it was a rehearsed tv show..the cut away was planned for so there no bootleggs made and sold ....
only "live in your face"..."i am there shows" never cut away at the wrong moment....this was tv editing that had been planned so no one could pirate and sell the show / musical performances.
there was no mistake...they had rehearsed this show...every part of it....the cut aways were planned...
drummerinCA
allan palmer
Posted at 1:35AM on Jul 6th 2005 by Allan Palmer
6. Colin said:
Maybe you should check your system specs before complaining about AOL.
I have WMP10, running on a 2.5ghz processor with 1GB of memory and a perfectly good 1MBPS ADSL connection.
I was able to get live Windows Media, Real Media and QuickTime streams on every other website where they are on offer (BBC News, for example).
The AOL content wasn't working when I tried it - and I tried at least six times throughout the day.
What's your problem with that?
7. I'm just adding to the comments that the coverage by MTV-VH1 was really bad.........cutting songs in half talking through great performances.telling us how great the show is when we could'nt even see or hear it.
Live Aid was much better.full sets minimal interuptions with getting the message out.
Posted at 9:57AM on Jul 6th 2005 by Charles
8. My AOL stream worked fine and I have a pentium 2.
Posted at 5:23PM on Jul 6th 2005 by Jessie
9. i had no problems watching the show on dial up either! it was so easy to connect and so much better than the vh1 showing.
Posted at 6:46PM on Jul 6th 2005 by amhad
10. MTV is no longer Music Television. That's the problem. Now MTV is commercial television. It's CTV. Over the last ten years, it has morphed from my most favorite, to my least favorite TV station. The staggering degree to which they screwed up LIVE 8 is simply a manifestation of how far they have strayed from their original mission statement. They've become more about money than music, and now because of that betrayal, lack both credibility and authenticity.
Posted at 3:13AM on Jul 7th 2005 by RadiatorKnock
11. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1505406/20050707/u2.jhtml?headlines=true
mtv/vh1 will show 10 hrs of uninterrupted performances saturday
Posted at 10:23AM on Jul 8th 2005 by nick
12. Hello, I have been enjoying the AOL Live8 streaming coverage, but I seem to be having a problem with the London feed.
I was wondering if anyone else has noticed that AOL live8 stream from London is only playing the first half of the concert. It seems that after the Snoop Dogg performance it goes straight back to the U2/Paul McCartney Sgt. Pepper duet and then continues through the rest of the concert till Snoop Dogg performs and then loops right back to the beginning.
I was at the Philly Concert and taped the MTV coverage but as most of you know it sucked...so I was hoping to see the second half of the London Concert.
Is Aol playing certain parts of the concert on certain days?
Posted at 9:51PM on Jul 8th 2005 by Archana
1. I could go on and on about MTV/VH1. But simply there converage was pathetic. I hope in the future when something significant in music happens they are not allowed to be involved.
They dropped the ball on history...
Im sure AOL was great, but I want to watch
from my TV with in stereo not from my computer...
Posted at 1:03PM on Jul 5th 2005 by jack