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Between US (NBC), Canada (CBC), and the UK (BBC), Canada’s CBC site seems the best. I’m still disappointed at the number of replays not available. Does anyone know of a country with better coverage to VPN into?
This doesn't seem to cover even half of the event: https://www.cbc.ca/player/sports/olympics/replays
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...
Came here to say this. They showed it live at 7 AM, on broadcast. No accounts or payment required. I know some people have issues getting a signal over the air (live in an apartment, too far from source), but usually when I talk to people about broadcast they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television.
As the OP of the article stated, this is actually rather frustrating to do in practice.
I 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…
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Came here to say this. They showed it live at 7 AM, on broadcast. No accounts or payment required. I know some people have issues getting a signal over the air (live in an apartment, too far from source), but usually when I talk to people about broadcast they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television.
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…
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 your TV.
With that you only need to get the antenna to wherever you put the Recast. If your antenna was on the roof, for example, you could place the Recast in your attic. Then you only need to go trough one wall or through an attic vent.
I've been wondering if a Recast could reasonably be powered by a battery and put in a waterproof box outside, so that (1) there would be no need to run the antenna wire into the house, and (2) you might not need to tie the antenna ground to the house ground (which can be a real pain if you want to follow code and the places where you can get good reception are nowhere near your house's grounding rod).
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DVKOOA2
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Fire-TV-Recast-over-the-air-DVR-500GB...
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...
> If you have cable TV, you can watch everything at nbcolympics.com/schedule so it’s actually quite accessible. This is the site mentioned and linked to in the article as a "site where you can actually watch live. And they have replays… of preliminary matches" I've also found out to be quite good-- not sure why the author is so negative of it.
For me, I had Youtube TV record everything, but NBC doesn't show everything, and its completely US centric coverage (I like watching the competition). On demand wasn't helpful either.
I tried Peacock (NBC's app) thinking that's where they were hiding all of their coverage. And again not everything is there, and much of it is behind paywall.
Fortunately, my wife clicked on the Olympics section of our Roku and it prompted us to install the NBC Olympics app. Then I had to sign into it, because it only provides 30 mins of viewing without a cable plan. On top of that they are injecting a lot of commercials into the programming, so I'm not sure why they couldn't air all of it for free (with commercials)
I 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…
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Oh that’s gone and got cocked up too. Discovery have paid a fortune for the europe-wide individual streaming rights, so BBC can only broadcast two streams at a time. You can only watch the individual sports streams on Eurosport/Discovery plus. This is a kafkaesque mess though - e.g. PS only has Eurosport app, but to sign up and subscribe, you have to go through discovery+, whose credentials can’t log you in to Eurosp…
But I thought uk left Europe :(
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Oh that’s gone and got cocked up too. Discovery have paid a fortune for the europe-wide individual streaming rights, so BBC can only broadcast two streams at a time. You can only watch the individual sports streams on Eurosport/Discovery plus. This is a kafkaesque mess though - e.g. PS only has Eurosport app, but to sign up and subscribe, you have to go through discovery+, whose credentials can’t log you in to Eurosp…
But I thought uk left Europe :(
I 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…
I agree, except for the “few commercials” part. That seems highly dependent on the event. For events with regular short gaps between action, they seem to show a ton of ads.
If you're good enough at blocking competition, it doesn't matter how poorly you do the actual job. The "AT&T" philosophy. Last Olympics I paid any attention to was because I had a C band satellite dish and could browse the backhauls and unattended camera feeds. Must have been '96 in Atlanta.