At first everything went well and I was very impressed by the quality of the picture but as the tournament wore on and interest in the deciding matches rose I suddenly found that my access to the stream was impossible. Taking advantage of the live help I was guided through a myriad of adjustments to make sure that my Digital Rights Management were in order, my media player and so on. However I began to suspect that the stream simply could not cope with demand. Why otherwise had it worked so well before? Nothing was helping and so we watched the Women's single final on a grainy Argentinian channel which managed to insert adverts in places which one had never before dreamed that adverts could be placed. Therefore we watched the Mediazone archive later in the day. The next day was the Men's single finals and by that time I had discovered that the Danish satellite channel was streaming that free of charge so we watched that as it was better than the blurred Argentinian channel. I don't know if the whole tournament was available from the Danish channel online or whether this was just a teaser to get new customers for the paying satellite channel.
So once again, I don't know what I will be doing to watch Wimbledon next year. The Mediazone stream was great while the early matches were being played but I suspect that they simply tried to distract me with suggestions that my DRM were not in order or that I had not updated the media player because everything worked fine for the first one and a half weeks. I am also rather irritated that I have been asked to alter a whole range of settings on my daughters' laptops which may now cause problems in the future. I was even asked to turn off my firewall at one point.
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