A UK-based Linode instance as a proxy works beautifully: http://bearsfightingbears.com/how-to-watch-the-olympics-live...
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?
#132This won't get you live coverage, but it will get you legal NBC coverage on your home TV... The broadcast industry does not want American's to know this, but they are legally obligated to provide the free "over the air" stations on cable (coax) even if you do not pay for cable service. In other words, do what I have done: 1. You need a modern cable-ready TV 2. Plug the coax into the wall (assumes your residence had c…
Do you have a link where I can read up on this? I'm willing to believe you, but it sounds too good to be true.
See my reply above with link to Fred Wilson's blog post.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#133>I didn’t go out and buy an antenna, but I was able to tune quite a few channels Why not buy an antenna, especially an amplified one? That will run circles around using a shielded coax cable as an antenna. >FAIL. There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription Sorry, that doesn't follow when you didn't even try a TV antenna.
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#134>I didn’t go out and buy an antenna, but I was able to tune quite a few channels Why not buy an antenna, especially an amplified one? That will run circles around using a shielded coax cable as an antenna. >FAIL. There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription Sorry, that doesn't follow when you didn't even try a TV antenna.
To be fair, not everyone is in a good area for OTA TV. You can check here: http://www.antennaweb.org/Address.aspx to see if you can pick up an NBC affiliate (or Telemundo, if you're okay with Spanish commentary) near you.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost everywhere, but not in the United States. Whether or not this is right or fair is left as an exercise to the reader; personally, I think it is not. However, the answer to the question is one of three things: subscribe to the required service, be in a grey area, or do not watch. I honestly cannot see why we keep having these debates. OBVIOUSLY the content providers are making money doing exactly what they are n…
> Almost everywhere, but not in the United States. No. NBC is broadcasting the Olympics over-the-air all across the US.
NBC, unlike most of the rest of the world, is not putting all, or even most, of its coverage out over-the-air. Many events will only be on pay channels like msnbc, Bravo, NBC Sports Network, and CNBC.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't cite a source but I'm quite certain that there is no requirement to provide these channels to non-customers. The requirement is that they broadcast those channels in the clear to customers. That means without a physical filter, non-customers get the channels. Adding/removing filters means a truck roll and $ so often you get lucky.
I'd agree that if your home never had cable, SOL. And you're right that there's nothing in it for them to drive a truck around...it's just s/w setting to turn off your paid subscription. However, see my comment above re ClearQAM, and link to Fred's post.
Where in there does he, or the link he references, substantiate the following claim?
The broadcast industry does not want American's to know
this, but they are legally obligated to provide the free
"over the air" stations on cable (coax) even if you do not
pay for cable service.
broadcast signals that are subject to mandatory carriage
must be "viewable via cable on all television receivers of
a subscriber which are connected to a cable system by a
cable operator or for which a cable operator provides a
connection."
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#137I wonder if folks doing this are also the same ones complaining about people stealing apps and torrenting movies? There's no real difference.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#138This won't get you live coverage, but it will get you legal NBC coverage on your home TV... The broadcast industry does not want American's to know this, but they are legally obligated to provide the free "over the air" stations on cable (coax) even if you do not pay for cable service. In other words, do what I have done: 1. You need a modern cable-ready TV 2. Plug the coax into the wall (assumes your residence had c…
I've done this for years. When I lived in Washington (state), the channels would periodically relocate themselves, so I had to rescan about once a month. It was also pretty frustrating for the channels to be things like 38.4. I got the feeling the cable company did that on purpose to try and make the experience as frustrating as they could.
Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
#139I'm in London for the Olympics and have been blown away by the BBC - from the usability of their website, the lack of commercials, the generally high quality of commentary and online material, to the 24 hi-definition channels of Olympic coverage live on TV in the flat we are renting. I wrote up some instructions about how to use EC2 as a web proxy here - http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/how-to-use-ec2-as-a-web-proxy/ - n…
BBC iPlayer is restricted in Ireland unfortunately. I haven't specifically checked from Amazon's data centre though, but I'd imagine it has the same geographical restriction as my home broadband.
I just checked. Gives me the same "Not in the UK" error message as trying from my IP in the states.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gmail's + syntax doesn't work. So -- email+1@gmail.com, email+2@gmail.com as a strategy doesn't work. I tried that.
Just because this is my pet peeve ... The "+ syntax" does not belong to Gmail, nor was Gmail the inventor of same. foo+bar@domain.net is an ancient tradition, dating back almost to the dawn of SMTP. Of course, the interpretation of the local part is entirely up to the MTA handling it, but foo+bar is pretty widespread. Certainly Sendmail supports it.
I didn't know that. Now that'll be my pet peeve. Im guessing many people have only seen the + as a gmail hack to sign up multiple times on the same site.