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Very impressive feat, no doubt about it. But the commentary on the Netflix broadcast ruined the spectator experience completely. It was utterly unbearable.

• cebert 9mo ago
  I thought the same thing. Half the time I wished they would just keep quiet.
  • keepamovin 9mo ago
    Then again, there's always Mute. Turn up your favorite music/sound or just silence. Could be good
• kaptain 9mo ago
  The Taiwanese live feed news channels on YouTube were great. Little to no commentary and you could hear the crowd engagement.
• shimman 9mo ago
  Honestly surprised that there was no audio option to disable the commentators.
  • yourapostasy 9mo ago
    With the Netflix infrastructure, I'm surprised they broadcast it so conventionally. Different channels running at the same time (with the crowd at the bottom, with the crowds as he passed each floor, with his wife watching, with pro climbers talking technical climbing stuff with simultaneous 8K online illustrating graphics, etc.), different audio tracks (with commentators, with crowd at bottom only, etc.*). Alex Honnold was paid only $500K for the event, so maybe there simply wasn't a lot of money allocated to the project to get fancy with the live broadcast.