I can cover that...
Had to work really late last night, so couldn't go to the Dome. Decided to take a dinner break around opening kickoff time and hoped that Tully's had the feed . No luck, so I grabbed a burger and went back to the office for a while longer. I managed to get home without finding out anything about the game. I carefully (so I don't accidentally see a scoreboard display or headline at ESPN.com) call up the feed on the computer and it asks for proof of registration. It doesn't recognize my email address to give me my password or anything. The last time I used ESPN3 was when it first came out - I thought I registered then, but maybe it was a free preview. No biggie, I go thru the process and enter the information for Time Warner until I get to the "please wait while we process" circle of doom loading graphic.
It doesn't give any indication of how long it will take to process, but says not to hit the back button or do anything since information could be lost and I'd have to start over. So I wait. And wait. Watched a couple of shows that I had on the DVR and give up for the night and go to bed. When I come down in the morning, the processing thing is still on screen. I decide to clear that out and see if I can open the replay anyway (again trying to avoid seeing any scores and hoping that the result isn't given away on the list of games to select - it wasn't) and I get in!! Alright, I settle down for breakfast and a blowout (I assumed).
The game looked fine and picture quality noticably improved during the opening drive. A little over midway thru the first quarter, a commercial break comes on and I decide to fast forward past it. Big mistake. You have to move the cursor to a later time instead of just speeding it up, and the timebar is very narrow. I over shot a little bit, but moved it back. Unfortunately, the original sound feed continued, plus audio from the later point that I moved to. I tried to align the picture and sound again, but only succeeded in adding additional audio feeds, one of which said "Touchdown!!" A little later, I got to see PTG's long run. I watched the game with audio "in the round" for a bit before getting the idea to just mute it. But turning the audio down on the game screen didn't eliminate the extra sound feeds, so I had to get rid of the full screen view to mute the computer. When I brought it back up, it only gave me a partial screen - looked like they have an option to show multiple games or something. I got the full screen back up, but the picture quality was noticably lower. There was a bar showing video quality and I wondered if I accidently selected the wrong option for my screen. Tried to see if that could be adjusted, wound up in the split screen situation again, then suddenly it zoomed to the end of the feed.
It was frozen with Villanova set up near the goal line and the scoreboard showing SU up by one point in 2OT. No indication that it was the final score - it just looked like they stopped taping with Villanova about to go for the win (or loss). At that point, I just called up the box score and came here for the meltdown.
