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If you have cable TV, you can watch everything at nbcolympics.com/schedule so it’s actually quite accessible. I believe you can watch 30 minutes of content without signing in using your cable account. Also, the author is wrong. NBC broadcast the opening ceremonies at 7am [0]. The author must have seen a rebroadcast. [0] https://sports.nbcsports.com/2021/07/23/when-do-the-tokyo-ol...
I do not know anybody with cable TV. It's like saying "If you have a rotary phone..."
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But I thought uk left Europe :(
EU != Europe. The UK left the political and economic union called the EU, they are still very much part of Europe.
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Everyone I know sans maybe one person has cable/satellite. So I don't know what future you're living in. The problem to me is they aren't showing replays that I feel a lot of people want to see on air, so you can't watch at a bar/restaurant. This to me is the major problem with sports on streaming. People like to watch at bars, but bars often don't have streaming devices on hand or a staff that wants to deal with it.
I think the people that have cable/satellite TV are roughly the same ones that still have landline phones. Sure, it exists, not like there's nobody, but I'm pretty sure it's less than half in total.
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Why is this downvoted? This bleak future isn't too far off honestly. Can't wait until the advertisers start literally torturing us as punishment for withholding our attention. When I watched that episode for the first time I was horrified but reality is even worse: these people think we're literal criminals who are stealing from them if we don't watch ads.
Probably because YouTube and Spotify are already peppered with such interruptions “upgrade to premium today to disable these annoying ads”
We get closer to this every single day.
But this is HN, 1/4[1] of the UB are probably in ads one way or another (ie work for fb/goog et al), another 1/4 of the UB are of the 'growth hacking win at all costs wannabe-CEO (ie lying and creating fake accts a la reddit, you name it).
But I hope another 1/4 of us are conscientious objectors. Leaving 1/4 for those who can't be bothered.
Anyways I usually assume 1/4-1/2 or more of HN will usually disagree with what I say, I don't mind.
[1] All numbers pulled from my behind.
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they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television. I think this hang up could be the installation. Where I live you need to mount the antenna at least on an exterior wall, if not the roof to get a clear signal. Then you have to run coax to your TV, through walls, perhaps multiple locations or you can only watch broadcast on that one TV. It’s easily hours of work, includ…
> Then you have to run coax to your TV, through walls You can also try under, over, or around the side of a door, or through a window, using a small section of flat coax like this [1]. An alternative I've considered is an Amazon Fire TV Recast [2]. That's an OTA DVR that physically connects to an antenna and power, and then can stream live or recorded content over your Wifi to an Amazon Fire TV Stick plugged into you…
Just let me send you $20 for an Olympics "pass" and give me access to multiple streams so I can pick which events to watch — without commercials. Is that bad business? Because I'm afraid I am sitting out the Olympics this year. :-(
That's what's available in Germany. It seems like they livestream every competition, sometimes without commentary. Check whether they blocked your region here: https://www.zdf.de/sport/sport-im-zdf-livestream-live-100.ht...
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At least on the Apple TV app, I don't think that would be easy. It seems to have ads embedded into the video stream, or at least triggered at specific fixed timestamps in the video stream, and they disable seeking during ad playback, and when you seek across an ad timestamp, they skip you back to the previous ad timestamp, then after the ad finishes they skip you back to the timestamp you seeked to.
Several years ago in the NHL app, poor connectivity with the ad server caused the ads to be skipped. It's possible that this somewhat different app could work the same way...
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That's a condition of Taiwan entering the Olympics at all. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-26/taiwan-chinese-taipei... I wonder, whilst looking at Hong Kong, why Taiwan would be at all worried about the One Country, Two Systems rule...
I'm miffed that paulg publicly posts criticisms of the CCP, yet it's gotten my account flagged on HN for posting the same things about a half dozen times. Sometimes just questions about what people think the long term outcome will be. The desire is to keep this type of conversation off of HN (flamewar and politics), and admittedly sometimes my tone descends to that level, but it's frustrating that I have kept my mout…
You can easily find a lot that stuff, use twitters search. I doubt he cares who posts here or what's going on, he moved on.
man so much whinging. This guy is not the target market and clearly NBC only half-cares but is in a position to do so and the eyeballs they get from the "home at 5PM, turn on feed and leave it running til 11PM" is enough for the advertisers and the operation on a nightly. This is likely how it's been for 20 years so this is nothing new.