View Full Version : Watch the Olympics live
If dealing with NBC makes your groan, you can watch it from another country's web broadcast. The BBC is doing such, for example.
The catch is that you need to have an IP address located in the UK.
However, that is possible through a VPN. There are companies that offer VPN services that allow you to specify a server in most any country including the UK. Google/Bing are your friends in finding such a service. (The one I was recommended to use has something to do with the three letter word for donkey that starts with A and Hiding such). These VPN services are legal commercial services. There is a cost for using them, usually.
How well it works depends on your own down link and other things. It seems to be OK for me but it may be Flash (yes it uses flash for the BBC broadcast) that is the hangup. My computer is older -- 2009 Mac mini. You may want to try various UK outlet servers as well to see if one works better than another.
Here is the BBC page for the Olympics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video
The Opening Ceremonies start at 9pm UK time, 4PM EDT, 1PM PDT, 2PM MDT
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The olympics is a just a bunch of globalist, marxist, feel good lets all get along, world peace and harmony, leftist bullshit.
The olympics is a just a bunch of globalist, marxist, feel good lets all get along, world peace and harmony, leftist bullshit.
Then start your own thread to discuss that.
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VooDoo6Actual
07-27-12, 15:08
The olympics is a just a bunch of globalist, marxist, feel good lets all get along, world peace and harmony, leftist bullshit.
Completely agree.
It used to be really something special to behold. It has become overly expensive, way out of control w/ the GWOT/FEAR etc.
Again another good idea that got Fooked up by commercialism, politicians & corporate greed.
Circling the drain of Entropy....
No disrespect to Chadbag either, just commentary.
The olympics is a just a bunch of globalist, marxist, feel good lets all get along, world peace and harmony, leftist bullshit.
At least they still compete for medals........for now.
I thought YouTube was going to provide live coverage here http://www.youtube.com/olympic
Maybe just not of the opening ceremonies?
I'm seriously concerned about the women's beach volleyball teams being allowed to wear shorts. :mad:
Actually I enjoy the Olympics. The competitors still give it all they have. The coverage is certainly far better than it used to be.
@jay35, the only thing I can figure is that it's all on a delay so the networks can get their prime time showings in. I'm not sure exactly how it's working though but I can't find any live right now in the USA.
Dirk Williams
07-27-12, 19:46
I could give a flying **** about the politics of the Olympics. Our American athletes are some of the best and brightest this nation has to offer.
Weather it's horse shoe pitchen or hand granade throwing we need to support OUR team.
It's the right thing to do, for all the right reasons.
Dirk Williams.
I thought it was a pretty good Opening Ceremony. Especially without all the commercials and talking heads -- BBC did not go to commercials every couple minutes and the talking heads were not as dumb.
We did not use the BBC Olympics Live coverage as listed on the net with all the fancy extras as it was only HD and I did not quite have enough bandwidth going over the VPN and after a few minutes the picture would freeze but the voices would continue. But I found the normal BBC Channel 1 online channel at standard def and that worked fine for the whole show. A few times it would stop a few seconds while it cached a bunch more but it was not annoying as it was anywhere from 1/2 sec to a few seconds and it would pick up where it left off, and it did not happen very much.
The Opening was a good show. Quite British I think and kind of strange at the beginning as they charted the history of Britain from a rural agricultural society to a modern society by way of the industrial revolution.
The tribute to British music was pretty good though I did not hear any YES :-(
We cheered for the athletes as they entered. Of course for the US athletes the most, but also for allied country athletes, and also for the host team. We boo-ed the PRC team. My wife hates the Chinese due to how they have athlete factories that take kids away from their families to raise them as athletes for the state. And I agree.
I enjoyed it and only missed the last 45-60 minutes when they actually lit the Olympic flame, Paul McCartney etc (I saw the flame arrive by boat but got called away at that point). A customer called about buying a Dillon Press so I missed the very end.
Using the VPN was a good solution to watching the BBC and we may end up watching some of the actual events that way as well.
Wife wants me to see if there are Japanese TV channels we can watch the same way...
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The olympics is a just a bunch of globalist, marxist, feel good lets all get along, world peace and harmony, leftist bullshit.
Completely agree.
Again another good idea that got Fooked up by commercialism, politicians & corporate greed.
You agree with Scott that the Olympics are Marxist / Leftist AND you don't like the games because they've been infected by commercialism and corporate greed? That makes about as much sense as a circle with corners.
Magic_Salad0892
07-27-12, 23:32
I still like the Olympics, and still like rooting for the Americans. And Austrailians for some reason.
It is infected by commercialism, but that won't stop me from liking it.
Personally, I find the spirit of the Olympics to be a venerable thing. Not that I necessarily agree with North Korea, for example, being able to participate, but otherwise, the idea of the world's athletes coming to one place, competing and representing their countries, is a pretty neat thing.
Though I don't agree with everything he said and did, Harry Fosdick offered a particularly keen and incisive thought on this subject that is relevant here:
"He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland."
In this way, I can share a sense of pride with all the athletes, regardless of where they call home. It doesn't mean I have to respect those nations' leaders, or even our own.
GeorgiaBoy
07-28-12, 00:19
People just want to politicize everything...
The bottom line is, they are still athletes competing for medals and the glory.
Also, I was unaware that "feel good lets all get along, world peace and harmony" was a bad thing. In a world of chaos, war, and hatred, its good to see a bunch of people from different countries get together in a such as the Olympics.
Oh yeah, that's just "leftist bullshit". :rolleyes:
Ok, I watched the last approx hour that I had missed from the BBC, tonight on NBC, from where the torch was lit from the Beckham boat to the guy on the shore, to the end with McCartney. So I saw the torch come in and the lighting of the cauldron. That cauldron was pretty cool and it was pretty cool how each country was given a piece of it that was carried in with them and it became one cauldron in the end with the flame. That was cool.
The bit at the beginning with the Queen and Daniel Craig / James Bond was pretty funny. And the whole Mr Bean / Rowan Atkinson thing was funny. I would say the show was pretty British overall and I think they did a very good job with it, and in many ways it was the anti-Beijing show.
The NBC show was inane chatter and constant commercials, compared to the slightly better BBC talking heads and no commercials. (I guess that is why they pay a TV tax, excuse me, must h ave a TV License to watch TV in the UK).
NBC should have gotten all their sponsor to chip in for a commercial free opening in exchange for lots of billing and recognition in the Olympics.
Hopefully NBC loses the Olympics one of these years and we can get a better Olympics coverage.
I've always liked the Olympics since I was a kid -- where people from all over get together to celebrate and compete. Where else do you seem all the muslim countries and Israel march in the same parade. And where you have someone sing all the verses to the hymn "Abide with Me" during the same show. Hopefully this will inspire my son to take his swimming seriously. He will probably never get to the Olympic level, but if it can inspire him to excel and push himself I will be glad.
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Magic_Salad0892
07-28-12, 01:49
I usually skip the first day of the Olympics. I just wanna get straight to the competitions.
Does anybody root for more than just the US?
I'm partial to Austrailians (like I said earlier), but I have no real reason why.
Belmont31R
07-28-12, 02:02
Ok, I watched the last approx hour that I had missed from the BBC, tonight on NBC, from where the torch was lit from the Beckham boat to the guy on the shore, to the end with McCartney. So I saw the torch come in and the lighting of the cauldron. That cauldron was pretty cool and it was pretty cool how each country was given a piece of it that was carried in with them and it became one cauldron in the end with the flame. That was cool.
The bit at the beginning with the Queen and Daniel Craig / James Bond was pretty funny. And the whole Mr Bean / Rowan Atkinson thing was funny. I would say the show was pretty British overall and I think they did a very good job with it, and in many ways it was the anti-Beijing show.
The NBC show was inane chatter and constant commercials, compared to the slightly better BBC talking heads and no commercials. (I guess that is why they pay a TV tax, excuse me, must h ave a TV License to watch TV in the UK).
NBC should have gotten all their sponsor to chip in for a commercial free opening in exchange for lots of billing and recognition in the Olympics.
Hopefully NBC loses the Olympics one of these years and we can get a better Olympics coverage.
I've always liked the Olympics since I was a kid -- where people from all over get together to celebrate and compete. Where else do you seem all the muslim countries and Israel march in the same parade. And where you have someone sing all the verses to the hymn "Abide with Me" during the same show. Hopefully this will inspire my son to take his swimming seriously. He will probably never get to the Olympic level, but if it can inspire him to excel and push himself I will be glad.
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Before the parade was terrible. That whole "NHC"/sleeping child thing was creepy.
The torch lighting was pretty cool. Fireworks looked awesome when NBC would show it.
I think the NBC coverage is going to be terrible, and I can't really stand any NBC people. Tom Brokaw and Matt Lauer grate on my nerves. I also KNEW when I found out the OC was not live it was going to be filled with commercials. Im not sure what it is about American TV but we can't get a single damn show here that isn't filled with commercials, and as shown today they won't even show major event live just so they can edit in a shit ton of commercials. They do the same thing with F1 racing while every other country gets the whole race commercial free (that I know of).
Before the parade was terrible. That whole "NHC"/sleeping child thing was creepy.
It was kind of dumb to "honor" the "NHS" -- National Health Service. But I guess it is very British. I asked my wife where the line of people waiting 6 months for surgery was located in the whole thing.
The purpose of it, besides honoring the "NHS" was to honor British children's literature -- Peter Pan, Harry Potter, Mary Poppins, and many others.
They seemed to be trying to honor or prompt Britain with things Britain is well known for -- children's literature, music (Who, Kinks, Stones, Zep, Queen, Bowie, and many other British music acts of the last 50 years, but no YES that I heard :( ), James Bond, the Queen, Mr. Bean, etc.
Along with the whole change of Britain from an agricultural society to a powerhouse of trade and commerce with the industrial revolution, which was led by Britain. Kind of a strange thing to highlight but does bring out what Britain is known for -- world commercial leadership up through WWI and maybe WWII where the "sun never sets on the British Empire" .
It was a very British show (no problems with that -- it's their show). And, as I mentioned before, I think was set up to be the anti-Beijing. More introspection on Britain, understated (in comparison), and less in your face than China did. Kind of shows the countries' opinions of themselves in the modern world.
I usually skip the first day of the Olympics. I just wanna get straight to the competitions.
Does anybody root for more than just the US?
I'm partial to Austrailians (like I said earlier), but I have no real reason why.
I won't watch all that much (so I say now, we'll see how it really turns out). I have a lot on my plate right now so can't take a lot of time out though we all like to watch in our family. Especially the swimming and diving. I'll see if I can get some of the BBC shooting since they seem to cover it more than NBC does, strangely, since the US is much more open to shooting in general.
Obviously I am rabidly partial to the US. But I will cheer for good athletes from most places; especially from the English speaking world, since, in many things, the English speaking world are close allies to the US (Oz, UK, Canada, etc). We don't cheer for Red China, and in general, for places that have been or are US "enemies" in the last 40 years (Russia, former East Bloc with the exception of Poland, for some reason). It is not really political (for the non China countries in the NO list). Just that we have no real connection to them, and in many things they are still rivals. But mainly that we have no real connection to them.
With the wife being from Japan, we cheer for Japan. I also cheer for Germany and other "Germanic" countries (Holland, Scandinavia) and Baltics. But the US comes first for me/us so if the US is going against the UK for something, I'll cheer the US, and then cheer good sportsmanship and second place for the UK :)
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QuickStrike
07-28-12, 03:09
The opening ceremony was pretty meh...
I wished they showed more boxing, rasslin', fencing, weightlifting, etc... and not just the same ole swimming and gymnastics all the time.
After the US, I find myself rooting for Japan. They always seem to take winning and losing with equal amounts of humility and grace. Must be that Zen thing. I like the Australians also. They just seem to love their sports and can get crazy at the right moment. Most of all, I enjoy rooting for the underdog, the one not expected to be in the running for a medal, without any hype and endorsements. Those rare moments when on that particular day, in that event, pulls out the performance of their lives and smokes the favorites. The look on their face is priceless. Damn near brings me to tears. Examples, 1980 USA Hockey Team, 2000 Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner.
Magic_Salad0892
07-28-12, 09:47
Obviously I am rabidly partial to the US. But I will cheer for good athletes from most places; especially from the English speaking world, since, in many things, the English speaking world are close allies to the US (Oz, UK, Canada, etc). We don't cheer for Red China, and in general, for places that have been or are US "enemies" in the last 40 years (Russia, former East Bloc with the exception of Poland, for some reason). It is not really political (for the non China countries in the NO list). Just that we have no real connection to them, and in many things they are still rivals. But mainly that we have no real connection to them.
With the wife being from Japan, we cheer for Japan. I also cheer for Germany and other "Germanic" countries (Holland, Scandinavia) and Baltics. But the US comes first for me/us so if the US is going against the UK for something, I'll cheer the US, and then cheer good sportsmanship and second place for the UK :)
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I'm pretty much with you on that. The US is my first choice to root for.
I also find myself being extremely interested in how Canada is doing. I'll probably root for them too this year. :)
I usually skip the first day of the Olympics. I just wanna get straight to the competitions.
Does anybody root for more than just the US?
I'm partial to Austrailians (like I said earlier), but I have no real reason why.
I do when it comes to cycling. Actually not pulling for any team... just don't care who wins as long as it's a good race. Which the mens road race was today. Great race. USA got 4th and he wasn't happy about it. That was a hard race for any organized team effort to win, as seen by the results.
Generally though, I am pulling for the USA. There are actually several people from my State there this year. One is one of the girl gymnasts who is expected to be able to win gold.
... and who can't cheer on a blind archer breaking his own world records?
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/olympics/blind_korean_archer_sets_record_WiGq2rcCZL8AI6XGpzFZ9L
I wished they showed more boxing, rasslin', fencing, weightlifting, etc... and not just the same ole swimming and gymnastics all the time.
NBCOlympics.com supposedly allows streaming of all the events so you can get all the rasslin' you want.
And if you do the VPN thing I mentioned and get the BBC feeds, they have lots of live feeds going on at once plus lots of earlier stuff you can call up and watch. We are watching the swimming now, even though it is long over, since that is what our kids do and my wife did in school.
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Most of all, I enjoy rooting for the underdog, the one not expected to be in the running for a medal, without any hype and endorsements. Those rare moments when on that particular day, in that event, pulls out the performance of their lives and smokes the favorites. The look on their face is priceless. Damn near brings me to tears. Examples, 1980 USA Hockey Team, 2000 Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner.
I am with you on that!
And even the guys who have no chance at all of being even in the top 50%, but who overcome odds to be there and participate can move me. That guy in Sydney, I believe it was, in 2000, from Equatorial Guinea who swam in the 100m FreeStyle. He had never seen an Olympic sized pool before he got to Sydney. He had trained in a 20m pool at a hotel in his country. He had no chance, but he gave it his best and everyone cheered for him. It was moving to watch. He won his heat because the other two swimmers were DQed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani
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Dirk Williams
07-28-12, 14:08
Interesting opening. I thought the Queen doing a LAHO out of her whirrly bird was classic British. I was amused at their willingness to poke fun at themselves.
I also enjoyed all the volunteers who spent 1000s of hours in advance to do a great job. The stuff was typical Brit, but then it is England what else should we have expected.
Fell asleep before the end as it went on and on and on.
IM kinda envious of the
Brits, they without question love their Queen and royal family. Been a long time anybody in the USA felt anywhere close to that sentiment regarding our leadership.
I find it refreshing.
Watched the bike event, watched swimming, and now watching girls basket ball, which is not really my thing, I'll watch anyway.
Thanks Chadbag for the info on more coverage,
DDW
Watching the BBC feed live of the Swimming finals.
Lochte was amazing. Phelps looked like he was over confident.
We were rooting for the Korean guy in the 400M Freestyle finals against the Chinese guy. Unfortunately he did not catch up.
BBC commentators make a lots of funny off the cuff comments. Like when the Chinese girl won the 400m IM Women's race: something along the line of "the Chinese have a lot of people to choose from" when preparing their teams...
And since they are a UK outfit broadcasting to UK fans, at a UK Olympics, they talk a lot and root for the UK competitors. Which is kind of nice and homey feeling compared to the USA NBC broadcasts...
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Magic_Salad0892
07-28-12, 23:29
Watching the BBC feed live of the Swimming finals.
Lachte was amazing. Phelps looked like he was over confident.
We were rooting for the Korean guy in the 400M Freestyle finals against the Chinese guy. Unfortunately he did not catch up.
BBC commentators make a lots of funny off the cuff comments. Like when the Chinese girl won the 400m IM Women's race: something along the line of "the Chinese have a lot of people to choose from" when preparing their teams...
And since they are a UK outfit broadcasting to UK fans, at a UK Olympics, they talk a lot and root for the UK competitors. Which is kind of nice and homey feeling compared to the USA NBC broadcasts...
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I feel the same way about the UK brodcasting to UK fans, and the homey feeling.
I'm watching it late on NBC.
Volleyball went well for us. Undefeated record. Again. I'm diggin' it. :cool:
Belmont31R
07-28-12, 23:51
The opening ceremony was pretty meh...
I wished they showed more boxing, rasslin', fencing, weightlifting, etc... and not just the same ole swimming and gymnastics all the time.
Boxing was on CNBC-HD earlier. NBC has 4 HD channels on our Time Warner...but we have the HD and Sports package. There was the local NBC channel, NBC (sports channel- formerly Versus), CNBC-HD, and MSNBC. Kinda had to keep flipping back and forth between channels based on what was on.
I saw women's volleyball, some swimming, mens team archery, womens fencing semi finals and final (foil), womens USA soccer vs. columbia, mens table tennis vs. the nork, mens badminton vs. so kor, dressage, ect.
Belmont31R
08-02-12, 23:54
I just want to give a GIANT FU to NBC for the way they have handled these Olympics. They have two apps for phones/tablets you can download, and which also shows the TV schedule. So during the day I use the app to see whats on the 5 different channels covering the Olympics.
Well this app which I can see the schedule also sends me notifications over the phone which you can't turn off, and I have gotten several spoilers this way. Not to mention various news networks, internet forums, and such putting out spoilers. But I don't get to watch these events on my HDTV with HD cable until "NBC Primetime" which is full of commercials, and they split up the events in such a manner if you want to watch one thing you have to watch for hours because they show bits and pieces of different sports intermixed with other bits and pieces of other sports.
So not only are the results spoiled all throughout the day but when I finally get to watch it on my expensive TV with my expensive monthly cable bill I already know who won what, and the entire primetime program is a puzzle of different events, full of commercials, and you can tell they edited the program in such a way as it doesn't make any sense. This is purely to get as much commercial time as possible while stringing viewers along as long as possible, and for people who have the NBC olympic apps on their devices they are getting notifications over their devices which spoil everything. I just think its an AWFUL way to show case the olympics, and after last nights "prime time" show our local Austin NBC station even had a segment on how people are avoiding "spoilers". How about first and foremost not downloading the NBC olympics app which doesn't allow you to opt out of notifications, and even then they have spoilers on the main screen of the app which you have to go through to get the TV schedule. Its a LOSE LOSE situation, and NBC should never get another Olympic coverage contract again.
I have to admit, I like the "spoilers" I get by reading the news sites because then I don't have to watch NBC at all! Or I've already seen it on the BBC online broadcast live!
Though we have watched a few things on NBC so we can actually see the performances the athletes put in. Mainly swimming as that is what my wife is in to and she wants to see it even though she knows the outcome. With her work schedule this week she has missed out on some stuff.
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Belmont31R
08-03-12, 00:35
I have to admit, I like the "spoilers" I get by reading the news sites because then I don't have to watch NBC at all! Or I've already seen it on the BBC online broadcast live!
Though we have watched a few things on NBC so we can actually see the performances the athletes put in. Mainly swimming as that is what my wife is in to and she wants to see it even though she knows the outcome. With her work schedule this week she has missed out on some stuff.
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Eh I want to watch the events on my couch, and on my TV. I don't want to find out results by an NBC notification on my phone nor watch the events on the computer. I think the whole delayed TV thing is GAY, and NBC's selection of events they cover is horrible. They'd rather show random non US soccer games which last almost 2 hours than US olympians in events (even if they dont win). If the local NBC affiliate has to have a segment on extreme measures people are taking to avoid spoilers then its ****ed up. Then then NBC app on my phone is sending spoilers over notifications (when the NBC app isn't even open) just adds insult to injury. I go to check the TV schedule and half the screen is filled with "XYZ won GOLD!" even though its not shown on TV until 7PM.
Eh I want to watch the events on my couch, and on my TV.
We actually have a computer hooked up to our "TV" -- small Mac mini so it makes it easy for us. (Currently the TV is a 24" computer monitor because I had it already and did not have funds for a real flat screen TV but I could just as easily hook up a real TV in its place and will some day)
I rip all the DVDs and put them on the basement server as well so that the kids and wife don't have to go find DVDs, they can just choose them in a menu and the kids don't get their finger prints on the DVDs, which stay packed away up on a shelf. Music CDs are the same. The computer is hooked to the "entertainment system" stereo so the thing is kind of like an entertainment hub.
For normal TV we have a USB TV tuner hooked up as well to the computer so that we can watch all the normal TV stations on our limited Comcast service we subscribe to. The TV channels can be shown full screen so it is not like running on a computer.
So, back to the Olympics. When watching the BBC, we have it on our TV and I just make it full screen.
If you have a laptop or something, you can probably drive your TV with it on the external monitor port. If the laptop doesn't have an HDMI output, you can get an inexpensive DVI to HDMO cable and simple audio cables. That is what I did for my MIL in Japan. We took our older Mac Mini to her and hooked up her Sanyo LCD TV she has to it for a screen.
I don't want to find out results by an NBC notification on my phone
That is gay. They shouldn't do that unless you asked for it.
I think the whole delayed TV thing is GAY,
Agreed!
and NBC's selection of events they cover is horrible. They'd rather show random non US soccer games which last almost 2 hours than US olympians in events (even if they dont win). If the local NBC affiliate has to have a segment on extreme measures people are taking to avoid spoilers then its ****ed up. Then then NBC app on my phone is sending spoilers over notifications (when the NBC app isn't even open) just adds insult to injury. I go to check the TV schedule and half the screen is filled with "XYZ won GOLD!" even though its not shown on TV until 7PM.
Yeah. It is really ghey how they jump around to various events in their primetime thing and how many events they completely miss. I don't miss the NBC broadcast at all.
As an aside: back when Lochte won the Gold for the 400m IM race in the first days of the games, the BBC DID show the medal ceremony for it with the Star Spangled Banner, the flag going up, etc. The whole shebang. But the same night, a Chinese guy won Gold in another swimming event and they (BBC) completely ignored the medal ceremony. It was pretty funny.
Belmont31R
08-03-12, 01:17
We actually have a computer hooked up to our "TV" -- small Mac mini so it makes it easy for us. (Currently the TV is a 24" computer monitor because I had it already and did not have funds for a real flat screen TV but I could just as easily hook up a real TV in its place and will some day)
I rip all the DVDs and put them on the basement server as well so that the kids and wife don't have to go find DVDs, they can just choose them in a menu and the kids don't get their finger prints on the DVDs, which stay packed away up on a shelf. Music CDs are the same. The computer is hooked to the "entertainment system" stereo so the thing is kind of like an entertainment hub.
For normal TV we have a USB TV tuner hooked up as well to the computer so that we can watch all the normal TV stations on our limited Comcast service we subscribe to. The TV channels can be shown full screen so it is not like running on a computer.
So, back to the Olympics. When watching the BBC, we have it on our TV and I just make it full screen.
If you have a laptop or something, you can probably drive your TV with it on the external monitor port. If the laptop doesn't have an HDMI output, you can get an inexpensive DVI to HDMO cable and simple audio cables. That is what I did for my MIL in Japan. We took our older Mac Mini to her and hooked up her Sanyo LCD TV she has to it for a screen.
That is gay. They shouldn't do that unless you asked for it.
Agreed!
Yeah. It is really ghey how they jump around to various events in their primetime thing and how many events they completely miss. I don't miss the NBC broadcast at all.
As an aside: back when Lochte won the Gold for the 400m IM race in the first days of the games, the BBC DID show the medal ceremony for it with the Star Spangled Banner, the flag going up, etc. The whole shebang. But the same night, a Chinese guy won Gold in another swimming event and they (BBC) completely ignored the medal ceremony. It was pretty funny.
Internet streaming doesn't have the same quality as through my cable box. I can get live streaming all over the place but that not the point.
Internet streaming doesn't have the same quality as through my cable box. I can get live streaming all over the place but that not the point.
I agree NBC's broadcast sucks. So why watch it? Why give them the satisfaction and the eyeballs for ratings? Just tell them to suck Donkey Balls.
And btw, the BBC online streaming of their coverage is pretty darn good. I believe it is some sort of HD if your connection can handle it. But in any case, on my 1080p screen at couch distance it did not look much worse than my NBC HD broadcast. Technically I am sure it was inferior but at couch distance I really did not notice it. (Except for every once in a while you may get a 1-3 second pause if the playback catches up to the caching but you don't lose anything as it starts up where it was when it paused -- unlike our NBC broadcast on cable, which was pretty glitchy the other night, and where we missed a second or two here or there because of the glitches)
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Belmont31R
08-03-12, 01:38
I agree NBC's broadcast sucks. So why watch it? Why give them the satisfaction and the eyeballs for ratings? Just tell them to suck Donkey Balls.
And btw, the BBC online streaming of their coverage is pretty darn good. I believe it is some sort of HD if your connection can handle it. But in any case, on my 1080p screen at couch distance it did not look much worse than my NBC HD broadcast. Technically I am sure it was inferior but at couch distance I really did not notice it. (Except for every once in a while you may get a 1-3 second pause if the playback catches up to the caching but you don't lose anything as it starts up where it was when it paused -- unlike our NBC broadcast on cable, which was pretty glitchy the other night, and where we missed a second or two here or there because of the glitches)
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I don't know. Just know streaming over internet is not the same as through the cable box. I already have the NBC live app, and can stream these events live. I have well over 20MBPS download speed through my modem, and still get hangups I dont get through the cable box.
Still doesn't resolve the issue of spoilers and the NBC Olympics app sending out notifications which contain spoilers. I really think we are the only country to get delayed coverage of these events.
Just got done watching the Women's Soccer on the BBC. Gold for USA!
Was a well played game against Japan. Normally my wife roots for the USA team but in this case was rooting for Japan (as she was born there) though of course she was also happy and rooting for the US. I told her the government would be by later this week to pick up her US passport :p .
It was guys vs girls today in our house. The 4 year old daughter was rooting with her mom, and my son and I were rooting USA so every time the USA scored we shouted and cheered and boo-ed when Japan scored their one goal (just for the effect). Wife kicked us out of the room for a while but we had things to do anyway. The BBC kept it going through the end of the medal ceremony. I liked the BBC announcer talking about the women coming out to get their "prizes" when they all came back out for the medal ceremony.
My wife said she was annoyed by them calling it "Football" on the BBC. I explained that only in the US and Japan (AFAIK) is it called soccer and everywhere else it is called football. (Yes, the japanese word is "サッカー, or "sakka" in romaji, i.e., soccer pronounced by a Japanese)
(Actually I only watched part of it as I had things to do, but I watched the beginning and end and followed a play by play text on the internet -- the wife watched the whole thing).
And a well deserved Bronze for our neighbors from the Great White North!
(We would have watched it on crappy NBC but they showed it live on the NBC Sports Channel, which we don't get on our limited TV package, and of course the crappy NBCOlympics.com streaming would not show it to us as they look up what your pay package is to make sure you are "allowed" to watch even when streaming -- thank goodness for the BBC)
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Can someone help me find all the Taekwondo events in HD?
Belmont31R
08-09-12, 18:39
Just got done watching the Women's Soccer on the BBC. Gold for USA!
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Watched it live on NBCSN. Good match.
Our defense was marginal and our clearing sucks. At least once (maybe twice) right in front of the goal our defenders "cleared" the ball with a dribble right in front of the net in perfect posisition for a Japanese player. Only got lucky they didn't kick it in.
Noticed Japan likes the long airball pass to try to get behind our defenders. Didn't really work this match, and felt they were flat and one dimensional. Kept trying the same setup over and over.
Our girls played hard, and deserved the win. The game against Canada was hairy Ill admit. But I do think the holding onto the ball for extended periods of time is an abuse of the rules. Doesn't really matter if most refs won't call it or doesn't get called in every game. That Canadian goalie was warned, and Wambach was verbally counting next to the ref when she made that call. Happens all the time in sports (influencing a ref). Until we have robots who make perfect calls all the time theres still a human element to sports. Glad to see CAN win bronze, though. It didn't help that their coach was saying the shit he was before the game. Refs tend to take that stuff personally.
Magic_Salad0892
08-10-12, 04:54
The beach volleyball comp between USA, and USA was good last night.
****ing 42 games undefeated in 12 years.
Watching the closing ceremonies.
Pretty sad when the most talented singers are both comedians, Russel Brand and Eric Idle. Everyone else without exception sucked.
Low point was that screeching hag Jessie J ****ing up Queen's "We Will Rock" you. She actually made the Spice Girls seem talented by comparison.
montanadave
08-12-12, 22:14
Watching the closing ceremonies.
Pretty sad when the most talented singers are both comedians, Russel Brand and Eric Idle. Everyone else without exception sucked.
Low point was that screeching hag Jessie J ****ing up Queen's "We Will Rock" you. She actually made the Spice Girls seem talented by comparison.
Your pain threshold is higher than mine. I had to bail for Family Guy reruns.
Belmont31R
08-12-12, 22:23
Watching the closing ceremonies.
Pretty sad when the most talented singers are both comedians, Russel Brand and Eric Idle. Everyone else without exception sucked.
Low point was that screeching hag Jessie J ****ing up Queen's "We Will Rock" you. She actually made the Spice Girls seem talented by comparison.
That was like putting 100 different things in a blender and randomly putting stuff out there. Sorry but all GB has to offer is stupid modern music and retro stuff that is decades old then they suck. Both the opening and closing was just a mash of odd stuff where you needed someone telling you what it was to get it, and even then it was garbage.
At least they left NHS out of this ceremony. God that was sucky. If you have to resurrect the Spice Girls and get younger singers to sing 30-40 year old songs you're past your're prime. A more fitting ending ceremony would show reenactments of what a nanny state GB has become, and show people getting busted by their network of cameras and putting granny in jail for having a 22LR round in her garage. Theres a reason we sought independence, and as much as big brother as we have become they are working on perfecting the nanny state as much as they can. I think London is a shitty spot for "summer olympics" anyways. If people have to soak their feet in hot water because its in the 40'S you don't need the "summer Olympics" in your city.
Again NBC sucks, too. We're the only country who gets tape delayed and commercial filled garbage. And Im not the only one who has noticed this. NBC filled daytime coverage with events the US was not involved in, and couldn't even show even half of track and field....instead they showed random water polo, handball, and other odd events for HOURS everyday. This is by far the worst Olympic coverage Ive seen.
Watching the closing ceremonies.
Pretty sad when the most talented singers are both comedians, Russel Brand and Eric Idle. Everyone else without exception sucked.
Low point was that screeching hag Jessie J ****ing up Queen's "We Will Rock" you. She actually made the Spice Girls seem talented by comparison.
I caught the last half of "Wish You Were Here" while getting ready for a late night night run. It was not too bad and I noticed that Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was assisting with the performance. Personally, it would have been a lot more memorable for those of us in our thirties if the surviving members of Zeppelin, Floyd, Beatles, Stones, and The Who put aside their egos and did a surprise farewell. Two songs for each band would be all that is necessary to make it the most memorable closing ceremony of my lifetime.
Belmont31R
08-12-12, 22:37
I caught the last half of "Wish You Were Here" while getting ready for a late night night run. It was not too bad and I noticed that Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was assisting with the performance. Personally, it would have been a lot more memorable for those of us in our thirties if the surviving members of Zeppelin, Floyd, Beatles, Stones, and The Who put aside their egos and did a surprise farewell. Two songs for each band would be all that is necessary to make it the most memorable closing ceremony of my lifetime.
It was all taped anyways. There wasn't a single live performance there.
And NBC didn't even show the whole thing.
I watched/had running the BBC closing ceremonies, and part of it was the medal ceremony for the men's marathon. (Won by a guy from Uganda with 2 Kenyans at Silver and Bronze) NBC just left that part out. (We were invited for Sunday dinner to my parents where my sites and BIL and their kids were also over and we watched it on NBC).
NBC sucks.
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I caught the last half of "Wish You Were Here" while getting ready for a late night night run. It was not too bad and I noticed that Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was assisting with the performance.
I told my BIL it would have been much more appropriate for them to play "Money" for the Floyd contribution
(and maybe if the Brits had thought if it they would have to poke indirect fun at the Olympics itself)
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And NBC didn't even show the whole thing.
I watched/had running the BBC closing ceremonies, and part of it was the medal ceremony for the men's marathon. (Won by a guy from Uganda with 2 Kenyans at Silver and Bronze) NBC just left that part out. (We were invited for Sunday dinner to my parents where my sites and BIL and their kids were also over and we watched it on NBC).
NBC sucks.
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I actually DVRs the Olympics on the 5 channels with coverage, and while I saw many more events the NBC didn't cover, none of them did anything like show the entire competition. In men's gymnastics for example you'd see the one guy from the Ukrainian team who might get a medal on that event. You never saw him on any other apparatus and you never saw anyone else on that team.
I hate to say "there used to be a time", but there used to be a time when you saw everyone who was competing. Of course back then they didn't used to show you 20 minutes of coverage and 40 minutes of promotion and commercials in each hour.
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