Get a VPN that gives you a UK IP and watch it on the BBC website. Got tons of results on http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+ip+vpn I use a similar one to access Facebook when traveling to China.
FYI, it's a link to an article, not a question.
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?
#22Funnily enough, I know a lot of British people who use the exact same technique the other way around to watch Hulu and Comedy Central in the US.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#23> Sure! In fact, if you’re in the UK, you can legally stream every event of the Olympics live, and commercial free.
Note that I believe you need to pay the licence fee to legally watch iPlayer (IIRC it pops up a dialog the first time you run it to confirm you've paid). So even in the UK you have to "pay for TV" to get this service. It costs approx £12/month.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#24> Sure! In fact, if you’re in the UK, you can legally stream every event of the Olympics live, and commercial free. Note that I believe you need to pay the licence fee to legally watch iPlayer (IIRC it pops up a dialog the first time you run it to confirm you've paid). So even in the UK you have to "pay for TV" to get this service. It costs approx £12/month.
Just a note, that's only for live-streamed things (such as the Olympics). Repeats of shows don't require a license fee.
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/...
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#25Use 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.
You can also move dots around. For example the following all go to the same inbox:
myemailaddress@gmail.com
my.emailaddress@gmail.com
myemail.address@gmail.com
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#26Use 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.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#27Wait, I don't quite get it - the first thing the author says is that he got "crystal clear" high-def Olympics coverage from someone called Telemundo over the air. He goes on to conclude that "There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription".
What did I miss?
Edit: Thanks for the quick answers.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#28Wait, I don't quite get it - the first thing the author says is that he got "crystal clear" high-def Olympics coverage from someone called Telemundo over the air. He goes on to conclude that "There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription". What did I miss? Edit: Thanks for the quick answers.
Telemundo is the spanish channel in the US.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#29Wait, I don't quite get it - the first thing the author says is that he got "crystal clear" high-def Olympics coverage from someone called Telemundo over the air. He goes on to conclude that "There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription". What did I miss? Edit: Thanks for the quick answers.
Telemundo is in Spanish
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#30Wait, I don't quite get it - the first thing the author says is that he got "crystal clear" high-def Olympics coverage from someone called Telemundo over the air. He goes on to conclude that "There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription". What did I miss? Edit: Thanks for the quick answers.
Presumably Telemundo have spanish commentators talking over everything?