The weekend

Over the past weekend I was in Detroit, Michigan for the Division I NCAA Wrestling Championships. During the tournament which was held in the 23,000 seat arena at the Palace in Auburn Hills ESPN broadcasted the finals live across the world. The technology to make that happen must be amazingly complicated. ESPN also had the quarterfinals and semi-finals on ESPN360 their Internet site that broadcast the matches live and on ESPNU with split screen action so you can pick which one, 2, 3, or all 4 matches that you wanted to watch. Even though ESPNU is not available the technology to be able to do that in certain areas i thought was neat. Knowing that people across the world could be watching you wrestle live is probably an amazing feeling. TV and Internet are on the verge of coming together with greater and smarter technology. You can already start watching reruns and movies online. There are even sites that you can join that sell movies kinda like net-flix, you can buy movies and watch them and then get a new one after you watch the first one. This technology helps digital media move faster all over the world so that information is learned quicker.