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Olympics? Please. - Manlove - 07-27-2012
so the opening ceremony is on now, live, but unless I pay to receive MSNBC and CNBC via comcrap cable I cannot watch it. When NBC does show the games they will focus on American competitors and sports like basketball and beachball that have existing american markets.
i would really like to see the worlds athletes competing but don't have cable...do I have any choices?
Please, no snarkiness, I've had a bad day.
Re: Olympics? Please. - August West - 07-27-2012
...they will focus on American competitors and sports
:patriot:
Re: Olympics? Please. - hal - 07-27-2012
Perhaps one of the european sports networks will carry it over the internet. They are the ONLY non partisan coverage in the western world...
Re: Olympics? Please. - Manlove - 07-27-2012
Play fair now. American Olympic coverage in the past has been so focused on expensively made biopics of USA competitors (which is fine itself) and the sports that those people are in, to the detriment of actually seeing the other Olympians from all over the world competing.
NBC will be showing 'highlights' in primetime, but you know, it's not the same as following an event from the start, getting to know the individuals and giving a damn.
We must be one of the few countries in the world that doesn't have free Olympic viewing of the whole games.
(Yes, I know you pay a tv license fee in the UK, so it;s not 'free', but you know what, you get to watch BBC programming all year for that!)
TIA
Re: Olympics? Please. - August West - 07-27-2012
We must be one of the few countries in the world that doesn't have free Olympic viewing of the whole games.
I would imagine that this is how a significant portion of the events financing is obtained.
Re: Olympics? Please. - Manlove - 07-27-2012
Gaah! August, I do not disagree with you that funding for something this huge has to come from somewhere...just that at the mo' I don't want to purchase cable for two weeks of Olympics coverage. Got any ideas?
Re: Olympics? Please. - michaelb - 07-27-2012
Vacation in Canada?
I was thinking the "please" part of the header was to be for folks not to put spoilers about the olympics in the subjects of posts. London will be 5+ hours in front of most of us.
I don't have a streaming suggestion, but if anyone comes up with one, let us know.
Re: Olympics? Please. - Manlove - 07-27-2012
I've tried to use the Youtube olympic page that is being shown throughout the developing world, with a proxy, but can never get those poxy proxies to work right!
Re: Olympics? Please. - bazookaman - 07-27-2012
I remember the wife and I were in Paris when one of the superbowls was on. It was funny b/c it's such a HUGE event here but over there it was just a footnote in the crawl on the local news.
Re: Olympics? Please. - Sam3 - 07-27-2012
I'm a Comcast subscriber, they get more than $60/month from me but yet I can't watch any streaming Internet Olympic coverage.
I'm not at the right subscription level, even though Comcast doesn't mention any minimum subscription level until you want to watch.
I don't know about this year, but during the Beijing Olympics they were able to have US IP addresses blocked from viewing any international Olympic coverage. I wonder if setting up a proxy server would work.
I just may have to torrent the unedited Olympic opening ceremony.