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\u201cThe challenge was to make that happen and make it easy. Every minute of the Olympics can be seen in one place, the television in your home. Not only that, but the experience is enhanced to bring viewer the closest thing to live via real-time 4K.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to individual competitions, any competition, viewers will be able to keep up with general Olympics news, medal winners, and highlights via a number of available programs such as \u201cOlympic Zone,\u201d \u201cGold Medal Moments,\u201d and \u201cThe Gold Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
These will be accessible by voice control. Say \u201cOlympics\u201d or \u201cSuper Bowl\u201d to your remote device. Also if one goes to Xfinity and chooses the Olympics, a simple menu will come up to lead a viewer to the place he or she wants to be.<\/p>\n
There are also large, conspicuous boxes specifying different events or categories of programs. In addition to events and medal ceremonies, a viewer can keep track of a favorite athlete or team.<\/p>\n
He or she can watch the opening ceremony, Greece entering first by tradition, as often as desired.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made the navigation simple, so viewers can customize their experience,\u201d Forlenza said. \u201cWe want to keep people from being overwhelmed and guide them to where they want to to go. Sports are fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatching them should be fun, too. We don\u2019t want people getting lost in the available content. We made finding your event and how to watch more than one event as easy as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was important. The Olympics are popular. We had a 78 percent increase in time spent watching the Paris Olympics, and 87 percent of our viewers tuned into at some point to the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n
\u201cBe careful about knocking curling. People love it. It draws a lot of viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olympic coverage, Forlenza and Pilquist say, goes beyond the events and commentary on NBC outlets.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to provide a 360-degree view of the Olympics,\u201d Forlenza says, \u201cso people will have access to podcasts as well as YouTube, Spotify, and other platforms to see coverage. This might include highlights, analysis, interviews, or comments from some Comcast-sponsored athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will also be sports movies, especially those that feature the Olympics, available.\u201d<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s one of the selections, but I\u2019m suddenly humming the theme to 1981\u2019s \u201cChariots of Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, of course, there\u2019s Multi-View, a Comcast feature that lets a viewer see four programs at once.<\/p>\n
\u201cMulti-View\u201d started in 2024,\u201d Pilquist says. \u201cIt was developed in response to what customers told us they wanted. You can use a menu to choose up to four events or programs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Picture and sound enhancement are ongoing and are state-of-the-art for the Olympics and the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of 4K, it feels like you\u2019re almost on the field,\u201d Pilquist says as he mentions HDR color and Dolby sound and video, which he says make people feel as if they\u2019re in the stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of this not only provides a better atmosphere, but it minimizes lag and adds buffers, unseen, to make everything as sharp and clear as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
From what I understand, all of this means seeing a game or event more clearly and in what amounts to real time. There\u2019s no delay between event and transmission.<\/p>\n
It explains something that happened while I was in Las Vegas. I was watching the Eagles-Bills game, the nail biter than ended 13-12 in favor of the Eagles. My niece, home in Bucks County, texted in all caps, \u201cWE WON.\u201d<\/p>\n
But I was looking at the game, and it wasn\u2019t over. The outcome was yet in doubt. Now I know how she knew the result and I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
She was watching on Xfinity and technology designed to be immediate, providing a surer grip on real time.<\/p>\n
Pilquist said it could be up to 30 seconds faster in transmission. I was agonizing over a game thousands of others knew was decided.<\/p>\n
Besides keeping track of any event or ceremony, including one that passed, Xfinity is also providing medal tallies and other statistical data its viewers can access.<\/p>\n
It all looks complete.<\/p>\n
Forlenza and Pilquist demonstrated the navigation needed to see the Olympics your way. I understood and could duplicate what I was shown, which bodes well for others who may have trepidations about technology<\/p>\n
Go Team USA! Go Pats! Enjoy the games!<\/p>\n
Andreas, Silvestri coming home in \u2018Love is Good\u2019<\/h4>\n
\u201cHow can it be \u2018another date\u2019?\u201d Christine Andreas animatedly asks me after I ask her if coming to Philadelphia is special for her or just \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cPhiladelphia is home,\u201d Andreas continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s our roots,\u201d she goes, referring to herself and her husband, Martin Silvestri, who will be appearing in tandem in a cabaret show, \u201cLove is Good,\u201d at Philadelphia\u2019s Rittenhouse Grill for shows on Feb. 16 and 17.<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up in Camden. The Camden City Hall is a touchstone. The minute I see it, memories come flooding in, including all the times I crossed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarty has a million more memories. He grew up in Willow Grove. He cut his musical teeth there. He can\u2019t wait to see his La Salle High School buddies.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Marty, he says, \u201cI love going home. Not only to see friends, but to visit the places my life as a musician began: 18th and Chestnut where I began taking lessons at age 14 and the Shubert Building on South Broad Street, where I went to the conservatory.<\/p>\n \u201cChristine has played many times at the Prince Music Theater on Chestnut Street. I remember it from my youth at the Midtown, a movie theater. I also remember playing dates around Philly and New Jersey when I was in my teens and early twenties.\u201d<\/p>\n Christine Andreas indeed has appeared in Philadelphia several times. She was here as Eliza Doolittle in the 1976 revival of \u201cMy Fair Lady\u201d opposite Ian Richardson and George Rose.<\/p>\n She was Laurie in a Broadway-bound revival of \u201cOklahoma!\u201d in 1979.<\/p>\n She earned a Barrymore Award for her lead performance in \u201cPal Joey\u201d at the Prince and appeared in the Prince\u2019s cabaret series several times. She was also seen in New Hope at Odette\u2019s and the nightclub in what is now the New Hope Inn and Suites.<\/p>\n Each performance is a treat. Andreas has a remarkable voice and fully expresses the story within songs.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t think of one of my favorite tunes, Rodgers and Hart\u2019s \u201cGlad to Be Unhappy,\u201d without hearing Andreas\u2019 voice as she sang it in the 1983 revival of \u201cOn Your Toes.\u201d<\/p>\n Silvestri is equally accomplished as a musician, Grammy-nominated composer, and music director for his wife.<\/p>\n Silvestri and Andreas have been married for almost 40 years.<\/p>\n Andreas and Silvestri have also accomplished something many performers don\u2019t. They\u2019ve each been performing with significant recognition for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been like one ride,\u201d Andreas says. \u201cThen 50 years goes by. In that 50 years, you learn what you need to take care of yourself, of your throat, of your voice. You know what you need to do deliver what you need. I think of performing as athletic and energetic.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, I\u2019ve much of what I\u2019ve done with Marty. Philadelphia is home, but we shared a life that took us around the world, performing together, whether here or the desert where \u2018Lawrence of Arabia\u2019 was shot.<\/p>\n \u201cI love to perform. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve done. It\u2019s what I do. It\u2019s uplifting and to sing to an audience and express myself. From the time I was a child in Camden, I knew entertaining was what I was supposed to do. Imagine a world in which everybody knew who they were and what they wanted and was able to do it.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t want to only perform,\u201d Silvestri says. \u201cArranging and composing is really interesting, but it is usually done in a recording studio. With Christine, we perform in theaters, concert halls and clubs.<\/p>\n \u201cArranging for her became very personal. The work I do and that we do together is satisfying. I see no reason not to keep doing it.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople ask me if I ever intend to retire. \u2018Retire from what? I ask.\u2019 This is a joy, not a job. I like thinking about music and making music.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never wanted to do anything else, and I don\u2019t know what else I\u2019d do,\u201d Andreas added.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what I do. It keeps the creative juices flowing. It inspires. It keeps you feeling. Andreas and Silvestri loves what they do, and love is the theme of the show they\u2019re doing at the Rittenhouse Grill.<\/p>\n \u201cOur show is called \u2018Love is Good\u2019 for a reason,\u201d Silvestri says. \u201cIt celebrates our musical journey through life. Christine and I have been together for more than 35 years. We\u2019re performing music that confirms love is good.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the first show we ever did. We put it together 40 years ago to perform at the White House for George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n \u201cChristine and I had just met while doing a musical called \u201cThe Fields of Ambrosia\u201d at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.\u201d (I saw it) \u201cI wrote it with Joel Higgins. Christine played the lead, a woman who is about to be executed.<\/p>\n \u201cThen came this invitation to perform at the White House. We did a full cabaret show in a private living room there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe sang songs Marty composed,\u201d Andreas says. \u201cThere was a synergy in his music. I fell in love with his craftsmanship. Then I fell in love with him.<\/p>\n \u201cWe already had a musical partnership. I trusted him as a composer-arranger. He trusted me as a performer.\u201d<\/p>\n Andreas goes on say Marty\u2019s and her love became the kernel of a show.<\/p>\n \u201cWe felt the romance,\u201d Silvestri says.<\/p>\n Andreas and Silvestri talk about the adventures they\u2019ve had together.<\/p>\n I say, \u201cSounds like you should be doing \u2018Two for the Road\u2019 in your show.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not in the show, but it\u2019s in other shows,\u201d Silvestri says. \u201cYou never know. It might be included after all.\u201d<\/p>\n Catherine O\u2019Hara was a unique talent.<\/p>\n From the first time I saw her on SCTV with Eugene Levy and Martin Short until the last time I saw her, as a presenter at last month\u2019s Golden Globes, I admired her as a comedian and as a woman who brought class to her work, even when she was doing sketch comedy or playing a character whose persona was the opposite of class.<\/p>\n O\u2019Hara had a way of standing out. I would always notice her and smile at how different she was from any other performer I could think of.<\/p>\n She may not have gotten the flashiest of roles, the kind Oscars are built on, but she won two primetime Emmys, one for \u201cSCTV\u201d and one for \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek,\u201d in which she was hilarious, and she always drew you to her characters and made those characters as distinctive as she was.<\/p>\n O\u2019Hara died unexpectedly at age 71. She was known to have dextrocardia with situs inverses, meaning her organs in her torso were arranged the opposite from most people\u2019s.<\/p>\n Seeing her at the Golden Globes, and recently with Seth Rogen on \u201cThe Studio,\u201d I looked forward to her next series or movie.<\/p>\n Needless to say, Catherine O\u2019Hara will be missed.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … Super Bowl LX in another. 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Fondly recalling Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/h4>\n
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