The question is why is it so hard to watch the Olympics now that you can't watch it live. It should be as easy as going to a URL and pick what you want to watch.
Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
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Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
#122You must be a youngster. NBC has been fucking up the Olympics broadcasts since they started back in 1988. They've always been overly USA-centric, they refuse to air the broadcasts when the events happen, insisting on time shifting everything, and loading so many commercials into the thing, it is impossible to watch. I pretty much quit watching 3 or 4 olympics ago. Today, as I tune through the channels, I always see t…
Advertising ruins everything.
But they can’t even get a feed with ads to people. I should have been able to get the NBC “live” Olympics feeds on Peacock or one of the other NBC apps at the broadcast times. Nope. Not even with ads. No dice. Cord-cutters are SOL (if you don’t want to put up an antenna or don’t have local NBC reception).
This is how you handle the Olympics if you want the ratings to nosedive.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
nbc's website has both of those, thats what i've been using anyway
It is not clear to me that even paying for the online streaming option gives you the ability to watch any Olympic event at any time. I assume NBC does not want to give away everything online without a subscription to a cable/satellite TV provider, hence the obfuscation. https://www.peacocktv.com/sports/olympics > Can I watch the entire Tokyo Olympics on Peacock, including Opening and Closing Ceremonies? >Peacock will…
Ah yeah it could be clearer I suppose, fwiw just using NBCOlympics.com and signing in with youtube tv (which I share with the rest of my fam.) is what I've been doing; I've heard of others using a ~$10/mo promo on sling and using that as a cable provider
all in all it's still better than trying to fight nba/mlb blackouts, where no matter who and what you pay you end up having to watch pirate streams (which also exist for tokyo2020)
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#124On the modern Olympics: it helps to remember that it is now an advertising event that happens to have sports competitions.
Hoping the olympics just goes away. Now it's all hyper scientifically prepped professionals competing to get attention in between ads on some idiotic exclusive network. College football is about to become the same thing. No more thrill of victory or agony of defeat, just filler to sell more toilet paper or something.
> College football is about to become the same thing.
It's a crime that a game between 2 not top 25 teams that run the clock takes 4 hours in a brutal September 12pm game; just so that commercials can play.
Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
#125Given that the event is in Japan, I'm curious why someone would hire a US-based service to stream it rather than just a Japanese based one.
Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event where people can sign up and stream it. I'm under the impression that the event is designed for the PHYSICAL audience first, and streaming it is kind of a poorly though out last minute thing.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searching for an app that lots of people already have installed doesn't seem like "significant effort" to me. If people don't want help or advice with this I don't see the point of this thread.
It's not as simple as searching for an app. It's knowing which app to search for, and how to get access to it. When I looked this up over the weekend I came across multiple answers pointing me in the direction NBC, Peacock, Hulu, and YouTube TV. Google "where to watch the olympics", and I see three options just from NBC (NBC, Peacock, and NBC Olympics) followed by list of content farm articles. Even if you manage to…
Even if you manage to get access, the app is organized poorly and makes it difficult to find the content you want.
No argument with this. UI for short-lived events sucks, in general. Still, my elderly parents can use it. I'm not sure what people ITT want. I posted a simple solution for doing what TFA claims can't be done. For my trouble, I got downvoted to oblivion. I don't care about internet points, but if it hadn't been so downvoted there might have been a chance someone who genuinely wanted to watch Olympics might have seen it and been helped. I think maybe some other people just want to complain.
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#127I love to talk shit on huge broadcasters but using their app for the olympics has been amazing. I just watched 2 days of replays from their app, all with minimal or no commentary, and all with few commercials (like 1/30 minutes).
Not only do you get replays for literally every event, but they don't even spoil them with the final scores or results.
Edit: It looks like I failed to mention that cable is required so that's a huge caveat. Also some folks seem to get more commercials than I have.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
NBC has held the Olympics hostage in the USA. But the last time I made an effort, a few Olympics ago, I did try to watch the gold medal round of women's judo to see the American. I couldn't watch it because NBC was showing a qualifying round of women's handball: Poland vs Lithuania or some such. So much for USA-centric. I guess you'll never please everyone.
With the internet, you can please everyone. Search, pay, click, watch whatever you want.
That's not true at all. There's literally no way for many Americans to find live or recorded events for free or to pay. NBC has blocked it off.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't the NBC Sports app give you pretty much what you are asking for?
No. There is literally no way to pay for an ad-free experience from NBC. The best you can do is subscribe to Fubo or YouTube TV and record everything using their cloud DVR feature, then forward through the ads. But some events aren't on any of NBC's channels and can only be found at nbcolympics.com (which is the same as what's in the NBC Sports app) which feels like about 50% ad content. To be clear: you have to pay…
I haven't seen any commercials on the nbcolympics.com streams. They just go to a blank stream during breaks so you can keep the volume on and watch a different stream until it's back.
Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
#130Given that the event is in Japan, I'm curious why someone would hire a US-based service to stream it rather than just a Japanese based one. Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event where people can sign up and stream it. I'm under the impression that the event is designed for the PHYSICAL audience first, and streaming it is kind of a poorly though…
> Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event
NBC (and other networks around the world) pay incredible amounts of money for those rights. And the arrangement makes sense for both parties: NBC can use it to boost viewing figures of their own shows in a way the Olympics couldn't/wouldn't. And they have surfaces to advertise coverage that the Olympics doesn't, or would have to go to considerable lengths to get. So it's a value multiplier for the Olympics to sell it rather than handle it themselves.
In the words of the (NBC) TV Show 30 Rock: "You can't fight synergy, Lemon. It's bigger than all of us"