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Which VPS provider are you using, I currently use a US based one (for other reasons), but that is costing me around $25 a month. But I have a Freebsd VPS. | |
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Evanston, IL | $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub bought a $7/month VPS in a london datacenter. This sure beats paying for a cable subscription. | |
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Princeton Junction, NJ | Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub And you can keep it after the Olympics and torrent TV shows through it, or watch BBC shows on the iPlayer. | |
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Evanston, IL | Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub amen to that. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub amen to thievery? | |
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Evanston, IL | Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub would you stop it with the fucking "thievery" bullshit. It isn't theft. | |
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El Paso, TX | Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub said by ArrayList:would you stop it with the fucking "thievery" bullshit. It isn't theft.
Not only that... But to be honest i'm just stunned that at this point in time they didn't just keep the rights to themselves for online streaming, and streamed every different event for themselves at the same time for free, and just have sponsors pick up the tab.
And if they are incapable of handling the load, just have companies that can do it for them as long as they meet their requirements.
I know i'd much rather watch this on something like youtube, justin.tv, ustream or anything like that than from NBC or any other countries national TV station.
And as soon as the internet becomes truly ubiquitous everyone will prefer to watch it like that. | |
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kudos:7 | Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub Not a chance that they would recover what they make by selling the rights to each of the individual countries for local streaming. Plus it gets the IOC off the hook for having to deal with the technical issues and inevitable backlash against broadcasters when something goes wrong. | |
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said by ArrayList:would you stop it with the fucking "thievery" bullshit. It isn't theft.
That person has been on a hyperbole role of BS for quite some time now.
The reason NBC is delaying broadcast is so they can cut it off when some terrorist or other major thing happens and the world won't be able to see it, is my guess.
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| Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub They also have a delay, in case of uniform "malfunction". In certain games, uniforms will be tugged and pulled and certain things shown, that over here is illegal to air. Thanks to the puritan views of Americans and the FCC. God forbid if a naked breast is shown on broadcast TV, or a Butt cheek. We wouldn't want to send thousands of families to life long therapy.
I recall after the China Olympics, pictures circulating of what NBC "chopped" out of the broadcast. Water polo can get interesting, with the way players tug on each other's uniforms and such.
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: $7 VPS turned into a VPN to share is cheaper than cable sub said by maartena:It is not thievery. As a matter of fact, many Americans can pull the Canadian signals OTA, and prefer to watch CTV instead. If that's "thievery" as the previous poster claims, this must be akin to Canada invading the United States. 
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If not, how is using the internet to watch the same content "thievery"? | |
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| | | | | | said by BF69:amen to thievery? How is it thievery? The BBC is streaming it free... I can't get the NBC Olympics website to let me view it here. Plus NBC sucks always switching midstream and teh stupid commentators always talking over things.. Shit I wanted to listen to the Deaf drummer.. Not Matt telling me how she has been deaf since birth and feels the music. | |
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kudos:5 | Re: Android Support for NBC Live Extra said by br0adbanddoc:This has been a sore spot for me as the app has major issues when streaming video on my Galaxy Note. The app is unusable and this seems to be echoed by other Android device users.
I had the same problem until I turned off IPV6 in my home router. Evidently IPV6 routing to the YouTube servers is less than optimal. Since doing that the app has worked much better.
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kudos:5 |  Events are LIVE on NBCOlympics.com
That they are showing events of highest interest only during prime time on TV is nothing different than any other Olympics when the Olympics was overseas and not in the US. Their decision is correct based on the ratings they are getting for their prime time coverage.
So, if you want live, go to the web site. The only complaint I see as legit has been that their live streams often buffer and stutter and fail. You can partially blame that on their choice of streaming partner - YouTube. Evidently Google & YouTube weren't ready to handle the load and for the 1st few days have failed badly. Though the streaming has gotten better the last day or so.
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| | | Re: Events are LIVE on NBCOlympics.com The "LIVE" events are not even actually live..They are on a 2-3 minute delay. Why NBC is doing this is unknown. If you watch BBC Vs NBC you will see the difference..Makes it really frustrating when you are watching an event and have the Live scoreboard up and the score comes up before the competitor is finished. | |
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join:2005-03-19
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| You can only watch them online if you have a qualifying cable subscription.
They are showing during prime time to make as much money on advertisers as possible. This is also why they don't show everything. It's all about the money to them, I don't blame them for this, that is what businesses do, but this is one time that they are going about it all in the wrong way and it will damage NBCs image for some time. | |
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Mount Airy, MD |  Re: Events are LIVE on NBCOlympics.com
said by ArrayList:You can only watch them online if you have a qualifying cable subscription. And prey-tell why would NBC care if you are a cable TV subscriber in order to give you access to the Olympics app?
Oh that's right, they're owned by Comcast. That's the reason right there.
More "benefits" of this merger I see.
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| | | | | Re: Events are LIVE on NBCOlympics.com Precisely! And it's the same reason they could broadcast additional content on digital subchannels of their stations but chose not to do that. And before anyone says that setting something like that up would take time, yes, it would, but NBC has known for years that they'd be broadcasting the Olympics. | |
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: Events are LIVE on NBCOlympics.com In my house the Olympics have become background noise, mainly because knowing the outcomes of the events beforehand really defeats the purposes of watching the Games.
My boy loved women's volleyball and the swimming-related sports though. 
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: Events are LIVE on NBCOlympics.com said by Linklist:The online access is available to dozens of pay TV cable/telco/sat companies. But this just begs the question, why should NBC care if people have a pay TV subscription or not in order to watch live events that would be rebroadcast later OTA at zero cost to the viewer?
I understand that from a business perspective NBC can sell access to Games coverage any way it sees fit, but from a practical perspective, my cynical side sees it as a way to give people an "incentive" to sign up for such a service. Comcast just happens to be one beneficiary of that.
I liked a previous poster's suggestion to pay for VPN access to a box in the UK and then stream the BBC's coverage. If I was more interested in the games, that would definitely be an option I would consider. I'm not signing back up for Cable TV just to watch the Games live.
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Princeton Junction, NJ | Re: Events are LIVE on NBCOlympics.com Because NBC gets money per subscriber | |
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Princeton Junction, NJ | I like that they show the highlights during prime time. Like most Americans, I work 9-5 and therefore can't watch the Olympics all day. | |
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And the stupid website actually thinks you have the subscription.. sometimes it doesn't know you do.. like me | |
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| I've been using a private VPN connection to watch the BBC iPlayer since their coverage is hands down better in quality and presentation. As for the YouTube/NBC streaming, I've not seen loading problems. All I see is horrible Flash Player optimization. YouTube's players on 1080p don't normally consume a CPU core and that's because when I'm visiting the site normally, I have a nifty Greasemonkey script forcing the player to use the GPU for everything, called StageVideo which works amazingly cutting usage down to 1-2% of a core. YouTube's embedded players have always had issues with eating CPU more than the normal player on the site, and the fact that the script won't run on NBC's site is another issue so I can't force it (as I don't want to watch in full screen, who does that on a computer while doing work?!). The script, by the way for past events also removes YouTube's stupid buffering policy, which makes it more comfortable to view 1080p on slow connections.
I do hope Google's Network is standing up to the extra load though if it's generating enough. I know they routinely have issues with each ISP and YouTube's speeds.
Also, yes the paywall is quite ridiculous. It's broken on many machines I use anyways. I notice that since all of the streams are being saved to video files, I really wonder what they're going to do as far as putting up older events for replay. | |
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join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
kudos:1 | #nbcfail To hell with NBC ... their paywall, their slideshow live streams, taped delays & cherry-picking live events ... I'm using a $5.00 a month VPN to watch BBC & Canadian coverage which is better than anything I've seen from NBC.
The Twitter issue was the last straw for me, who the hell does NBC think they are? And twitter is just as bad for kowtowing to them. | |
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| | | Re: #nbcfail Agreed 110%. I wanted to watch last nite.... they are all over the place with their 'coverage' it's a joke and a waste of time.
So I'll watch other coverage... | |
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join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
kudos:1 | Is There a Competition Going On? If the Olympic games focused on being an international athletics competitions again, I may care. I'm not interested in contributing in any way to this pompous, money-grabbing exploitation and propaganda tool. | |
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| | | Re: Is There a Competition Going On? ^^This
It's all about the money now and has been for decades. | |
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join:2000-04-27
Woodbridge, VA | Live extra app for android I have been using the android app on my droid razr with no issues. It did not work for a few days after installed. There have been a couple of updates to the app and I finally decided to give it another try yesterday and its working flawlessly Verizon 4G | |
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join:2001-03-05
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kudos:1 | How is CTV's coverage? I don't really watch the Olympics anymore because it's so over-commercialized, but I do remember that when the CBC covered the Olympics, many Americans just across the border tuned into CBC's coverage with their rabbit ears, finding it so much superior to NBC's coverage.
But is it the same case with CTV? Is their coverage just as good as CBC's coverage used to be just a few years ago?
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|  PaulgDisplaced YooperPremium
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kudos:1 | Re: How is CTV's coverage? I grew up close to the border, so much so that our cableco actually carried CBC. CBCs coverage was astoundingly better than NBC ever was.
I also miss HNIC. | |
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Cortland, NY | I love CTV..I got to see the while synch diving event Saturday...NBC didnt show it at all since there were no American divers. | |
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| | Suggestion for NBC I have a suggestion for NBC. If they think their prepackaged, tape-delayed content, full of touching stories about the athletes and other assorted crap, is what people really want, then perhaps they should make their free offering a simple raw feed of the coverage, or, if they must offer commentary, then retransmit the BBC feed. Then make their prepackaged, narrated coverage the premium offering. Then everyone can be happy.
What about it, NBC? | |
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| | Too much BS from critics... There is no real paywall. There is a list of some 100 "partner providers"... and one can easily get a 4-hr pass with 2 clicks...
So let's cut the BS...
Oh and a whole 2-min delay... yes, let's not buffer and transcode anymore... | |
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Saint Louisville, OH | I don't care Happily for me I just don't give a fig about any of the coverage. It sure shouldn't be so darn hard to get good coverage for those who do though. | |
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|  MajestikWorld TravelerPremium
join:2001-05-11
Tulsa, OK | Re: I don't care Not interested either.
I have a Slingbox in Switzerland and gave my neighbor access to watch the olympics on Sky TV from her big tv.The least I can do since she gave me access to her Cox Ultimate busIness.
Looks great in hd.
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join:2003-06-19
San Francisco, CA | Ironic... When Tim Berners-Lee said:
"This is for everyone."
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| Re: Ironic... said by pkorx8:When Tim Berners-Lee said:
"This is for everyone."
*Except when NBC decides it is NOT for everyone in the US.
How? *EVERYONE* can watch it (provided that they have at least a fast-enough internet connection or a TV capable of receiving their free OTA signal) | |
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join:2003-06-19
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| Re: Ironic... Not talking about the ota broadcast.
Berners-lee implied the internet was invented for everyone to use.
Its ironic because NBC does not provide internet streaming of the venues, as their definition of "everyone" is everyone who pays a PREMIUM cable subscription.
I'm not happy that NBC decided their taped delayed, redacted version of the opening ceremony is "what the American public will like..."
The current state and technology of the internet allows real time live streaming of world events, this is not the Atlanta 1996 Olympics where taped delays are acceptable.
For me, this is the first time net neutrality and internet censorship has directly affected me. Isn't this exactly what Hilary Clinton condemned China and Iran for doing, censoring the internet for the interest of a special group?
Btw, did China and Iran get live broadcasts of the opening ceremony?
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Berners-lee implied the internet was invented for everyone to use.
Its ironic because NBC does not provide internet streaming of the venues, as their definition of "everyone" is everyone who pays a PREMIUM cable subscription.
I'm not happy that NBC decided their taped delayed, redacted version of the opening ceremony is "what the American public will like..."
The current state and technology of the internet allows real time live streaming of world events, this is not the Atlanta 1996 Olympics where taped delays are acceptable.
For me, this is the first time net neutrality and internet censorship has directly affected me. Isn't this exactly what Hilary Clinton condemned China and Iran for doing, censoring the internet for the interest of a special group?
Btw, did China and Iran get live broadcasts of the opening ceremony?
Like dissidents in repressed countries, we are referring to vpn tunnels to watch world events.
Wrong. EVERYONE can. No cable subscription required. But it's easier to echo a lie than check for yourself. | |
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join:2010-10-16
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| They should just put them on pay-per-view They should just put the Olympics (commercial free and unedited) on pay per view. Pay per view would generate more revenue than advertising for bad credit OK car loans, free government supported cell phones, guarenteed phone service (for those who've been shut off by the "mean" phone company), and ambulance chasing lawyers. That's most of the advertising that our local NBC (WWLP-TV) affiliate plays.
I've always thought that sports should be on pay-per-view. I always have hated it when sports go into overtime and interrupt/preempt my local news cast, that I like to watch when I am eating dinner. I am a guy but I don't have a huge interest in Sports (other than hoping the Chicago Cubs win a world series in my lifetime), but there are plenty of guys that would pay extra on their cable bills for their football fix (especially if it was free of advertising). Just think of the revenue the NFL/MLB/NHL would get if they showed their games on pay per view or subscription based services commercial free and uninterrupted. | |
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| | | Re: They should just put them on pay-per-view Yes and they should use 3 different pay per view channels named after the colors on the US flag.. A red channel, a white channel, and a blue channel. It will be a smashing success! | |
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| Re: They should just put them on pay-per-view said by bige1977 :Yes and they should use 3 different pay per view channels named after the colors on the US flag.. A red channel, a white channel, and a blue channel. It will be a smashing success!
It would actually be nice if they just gave you raw access to all the cameras, and then you chould choose which one you want to watch, seriously, this would be way better than these streams "picked" by someone else. What if I want to watch a specific sport all day long, or for an extended period? The broadcasts that are going out are bits and pieces of each event. | |
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| Re: They should just put them on pay-per-view said by Chubbysumo:said by bige1977 :Yes and they should use 3 different pay per view channels named after the colors on the US flag.. A red channel, a white channel, and a blue channel. It will be a smashing success!
It would actually be nice if they just gave you raw access to all the cameras, and then you chould choose which one you want to watch, seriously, this would be way better than these streams "picked" by someone else. What if I want to watch a specific sport all day long, or for an extended period? The broadcasts that are going out are bits and pieces of each event. Yeah like tnt.tv NBA games, but with more! | |
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join:2009-11-15
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Then there was the shots, what you didn't know what to look at? Yeah how about you show the giant creatures they made instead of the crowd or the workers turning the same gear again, I get that was important but come on!
Also is the Olympics it didn't have to start during prime time, my friend in London was telling me about the ending 3 hours before we started. Why not show it live then re-show it later if you didn't think it started at a good time here. | |
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| NickDPremium
join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ | Re: I agree They show it live online, then cherry-pick the best events for primetime | |
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join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | CC Merger with NBC should had never been allowed. If the FCC would had never allowed CC to merge with NBC, we could had stream the Olympic live over the internet, or at the very least have better coverage on NBC when they broadcast it on TV. I have not watch one event whatsoever, but than again I don't have OTA, and I don't subscribe to the TV. Too bad subscribing to CC HSI isn't good enough for them. It seems like the CC TV subscribers get more benefits than the CC HSI subscribers do. When will these TV/Broadband companies learn that the internet is becoming more mainstream than TV?
Just fucking imagine what it would be like if ATT merged with NBC instead of CC, that would be a disaster waiting to happen.
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| | | Re: CC Merger with NBC should had never been allowed. you are right. Why can't they do live coverage?? So what if it is 4am in the us. Instead I have to wait until 7pm to see the event?
The opening ceremonies were a joke. I watched them online long before nbc showed them. | |
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| MadtownPremium
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | Not only should they stream it live, but they should also have it on demand for those who can't watch it live 1am PST/4am EST. | |
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join:2001-06-20
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| ARRRGHHH!!! I wonder if NBC had a 3D feed of, oh the opening ceremony? The BBC 3D version is a 11 gig download at a couple of bit-torrent sites. I have the whole opening ceremony 1080p from the BBC it is so superior to the butcher job NBC did. The stupid commentary, for God's sake SHUT UP!!!!! I don't need to know Joe Schmoe survived hemorrhoid surgery a week before but is heroically competing in the Equestrian cross country competition, oh and this athletic profile is brought to you by Preparation H.
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join:2009-04-29
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| Annoys me What annoys me with the taped broadcasts is they have more commercials than content. OK, I get that..but skipping a vault or bars performance to shove in a commercial SIX HOURS after the event is pure greediness. The live app sucks since it uses flash. The Ipad app is ok - if it actually played the content - sometimes it stalls or says the stream isn't ready but then jumps right to the final standings. | |
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