That sucks about not being able to get it OTA. I'm in Toronto and with a $20 antenna I can get a solid NBC broadcast from Buffalo. The local CTV channel also has an Olympics program so at any point in time I usually have 2 sporting events to choose from.
I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
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Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#12Sign up for www.unblock-us.com or www.unotelly.com and watch the amazing BBC coverage on iPlayer. Super super simple setup. Personally, I prefer www.unblock-us.com
How does this work?
Looks like some sort of proxy. Routing through the UK is an option so BBC iPlayer will allow you to stream the Olympics.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
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Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#14Sign up for www.unblock-us.com or www.unotelly.com and watch the amazing BBC coverage on iPlayer. Super super simple setup. Personally, I prefer www.unblock-us.com
How does this work?
Are you saying technically under the hood, or just how does a person use the service?
Using the service is trivial for anybody on HN. Just a matter of setting your DNS settings to specific servers. That's it.
Technically... I'm still trying to figure that one out. I think what they do is handle the IP check from the service, and then pass off the stream to your computer. This would make sense since the stream server would be different than the IP check server. This is great because then only a very limited subset of traffic is flowing through their servers so you get "native" speeds.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#15In the Netherlands you can watch it via NOS. They have explanations for how to watch it on your pc, mobile, tv, radio, twitter/fb. See http://nos.nl/os2012/volg-de-spelen/ . To watch on your pc, they partnered with Youtube Live: http://www.youtube.com/user/nosnlsport which gives me: "The uploader has not made this video available in your country. " which is a bit strange (living in the Netherlands). Fortunately it is…
The NOS website has a nice design. The sports and events are very well categorised. They even place a thumbnail of the video stream in the floating menu when you are looking at items further down the page (so you don't miss out on anything while reading the articles). The only thing that's missing are other languages than Dutch, is it possible that it's done deliberately to keep people from abroad out?
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#16Sign up for www.unblock-us.com or www.unotelly.com and watch the amazing BBC coverage on iPlayer. Super super simple setup. Personally, I prefer www.unblock-us.com
Not sure why others downvoted you. I just tried unblock-us.com and it works... basically by changing your DNS servers. I added it to the article as another option.
I'm confused because I thought that geo-restrictions were handled by IP address, so I'm not sure how this gets around that.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#17What area are you in with no terrestrial NBC affiliate?
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#18does this work in the us? http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html this is the official european broadcast stream. simply the best, every event in live and you can also replay them. plus there is no commentator here, just the raw broadcast (i hate when commentators talk too much...)
Negative, "you cannot watch this outside of the European Broadcasting Union".
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#19Use your email and get a temporary pass on NBColympics.com.
Although it only lasts 4hrs but I assume you can use a different email after that and it might still work.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#20Use your email and get a temporary pass on NBColympics.com. Although it only lasts 4hrs but I assume you can use a different email after that and it might still work.
Gmail's + syntax doesn't work. So -- email+1@gmail.com, email+2@gmail.com as a strategy doesn't work. I tried that.