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Live Streams and On-Demand Highlights NBC Olympics. Media giant NBC has exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics in the United States, and will serve up four live streams and 3,000 hours of on-demand video online.
Beijing 2008 Olympics LIVE Online Coverage. Has free live video and audio streaming of all Olympic events worldwide. Nothing to download or install. Great quality feeds, live on your PC!
Watch Olympics. Offering a syndication of user streaming generated feeds that are broadcasting olympic sporting events, large in part to services like UStream, and Blog TV which allow users to broadcast digital video.
TV Tonic. NBC paired with Wavexpress to offer event highlights on demand via a download service similar to iTunes. If you use Windows Media Center to watch TV you'll see a link to this software marked as "NBC Olympics" in the Online Media strip. This will offer video ranging in quality from 840x480 progressive to 1080i HD. For 32-bit Windows Vista users only.
YouTube. Starting Wednesday, Google will provide approximately three hours of content each day from the Olympics Broadcasting Service on a channel dedicated to the games. The content will include highlight reels and daily wrap-ups, but no live coverage. The footage will be available in 77 territories, including South Korea, India and Nigeria, that aren't officially covered by Olympic sponsors, according to an International Olympic Committee press release.
ItsGameTime.tv. Streamed live using flash so no downloading any programs. Although illegal, there are no ads except a donation button for the Olympics.
CCTVOlympics.com. CCTV will be supplying more than 5,000 hours of Olympic Games coverage for mainland China and Macau.
BBC Sports. The U.K.'s official Olympics broadcaster will offer six streaming channels showing coverage from BBC TV and BBC News Interactive. Channels will focus on on-demand daily highlights and athlete interviews.
Yahoo7. Australia's official Olympics online portal offers live streams, video coverage on-demand and behind-the-scenes interviews, specials and features.
CBC Olympics. Canadians can tune into the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation online for supplemental live streams, video coverage on-demand and behind-the-scenes interviews, specials and features.
Cox High Speed Internet. Cox customers can access 2,200 hours of 25 events streamed live, plus full-event video replays, extensive highlights, including daily recaps of key events, best-of montages, commentator analysis and athlete-specific clips each day, available on NBCOlympics.com via a link from the Sports page on www.cox.net.
Getting Around Location Restrictions
In most cases, users in the United States will be blocked from viewing the footage on the non-NBC sites. But you may be able to view clips or streams from other countries if you use a proxy server located within that country, or if you can otherwise trick the streaming server into thinking you're from a country where it's allowed.
There's some advice on this topic at Metafilter.
The easiest way for those not interested in paying or dealing with geo-limits is to go to Proxy.org for a list of proxies, organized by country.
Peer-to-Peer Options If you want to move beyond bite-size recaps and highlight reels, P2P sites are your best bet for backdoor access to unedited blocks of Olympics footage. Additionally, content is likely to be available sooner than the 12-hour delays expected with some of NBC's coverage. Try these web workarounds for full access to the Olympics.
BitTorrent. Miss the opening ceremonies? Or the four-hour finale of table tennis? Try downloading torrents of popular Olympic events. Top torrent-tracking sites to try include isoHunt, Mininova and EZTV. Need a quick primer on using BitTorrent? Read our How-To Wiki entry on the subject.
Veetle Stanford University's experimental web TV platform requires a downloadable player, but offers live broadcasts of soccer games, basketball and more.
Sopcast. This free P2P internet TV player requires a download, but offers a wide lineup of channels broadcasting the Olympic games.
TVants. This is a P2P Internet TV, which requires a free download. TVants can run on Windows or on Linux's WINE.
PPMate. A Chinese P2P Internet TV network, download. PPMate only run under Windows.
TVU Networks. This P2P internet TV player requires a free download and only works with Windows, but is a good resource for watching global sporting events online.
Recording Events Online WM Capture. If you're looking to make recordings of certain events to save forever, transfer to an iPod, or import into a video editing program, you'll need to use a on-screen video recording program like WM Capture. NBC is streaming using Microsoft's Silverlight, which has an encrypted stream, making streaming videos hard to capture digitally. WM Capture is especially well suited for high quality recordings, as it uses a proprietary high speed MPEG-2 codec for fast video capture from any region on your PC's screen.
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I guess I am only to wait for the opening ceremony from our TV later to night.... nice try, verybody, thanks,
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