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As is the custom, here is the place for Americans to whine about NBC, as we're one of the few countries who do not have a large state broadcaster outbidding private commercial networks for this event in the public's interest. That means constant commercials and having to listen to 600 hours of Bugler's Dream; as well John Williams's themes for the 1984/1996 Olympics, which NBC can't stop using because they sound like Star Wars and remind us of those times when the Olympics were held in America In case you forgot, since NBC got absorbed by the very same cable companies that are struggling to keep pay TV relevant, they've since established their own cable sports network ala ESPN and will be putting most of the overflow and niche sports over there. Which at least keeps them off CNBC and MSNBC as much as it used to be. That gives them more time to dedicate to Donald Trump, which probably produces more ratings than the Olympics do these days. The streaming service is much better than it was when it debuted ten years ago in Beijing, but as much of the content is broadcast on cable networks the entire service requires a login with a cable/satellite partner whose buying their basic cable channels. So if you're one of those so-called millennials with your weird 'free-to-air terrestrial signals' breaking the tradition of paying for TV channels, you get Not Bob Costas and prepackaged highlights in primetime, and nothing else. As the actual live events are largely happening at 3 in the morning in the west coast, I didn't bother buying a VPN to watch some other country's streams this year. But I do have to say as someone who has a participating cable login that the site telling you exactly what streaming events are up when is worse than it was even in 2008. I can only look day by day at a list of either all events or one event at a time. There is no programming grid for streams, just for TV broadcasts. It's terribly annoying.
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We're stuck watching NBC's programing at work because of the servers we use, but on the bright side we get American Netflix.
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Feb 9, 2018 23:21
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no VPN purchase required: I installed setupVPN in chrome, set it to canada, and enjoyed watching CBC broadcasts last night. feels pretty good??
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Feb 10, 2018 00:19
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I don't understand why I can't just throw 20 bucks at someone and get an ondemand stream of all the events. They all get recorded, ostensibly, and there's got to be some sort of commentary (or pay some clown to do it). Frustrating that the only time they do most of these sports you can't even watch em. I'll even let you poo poo all over Martin Luther King's memory to try to sell trucks in the downtime between bobsled runs.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:57
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Getting Bode Miller and Johnny Mosley to provide commentary for the skiing events was a pretty rad move on NBC's part. Giving skiing like 10 minutes of coverage sprinkled throughout an hour of figure skating was not.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:04
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Minrad posted:no VPN purchase required: I installed setupVPN in chrome, set it to canada, and enjoyed watching CBC broadcasts last night. feels pretty good?? Thanks for this. I finally stopped bitching and took the three seconds to install the above. Now watching live curling on my big screen with chromecast. The Canadian announcers are so soothing.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:28
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Is this the thread for the NBC broadcast of the opening ceremony? The intro montage showed The Troops and how Korea is scary.
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Feb 10, 2018 02:08
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Is this the thread for the NBC broadcast of the opening ceremony? The intro montage showed The Troops and how Korea is scary. Yeah I think this is the thread. I like how the one skier's sob story was "I wasn't the best, but now I am!"
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Feb 10, 2018 02:12
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Mike Pence brought Otto Warmbier's dad. Cool.
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Feb 10, 2018 02:16
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They're broadcasting the opening ceremony 14 hours after it already happened and they still can't just show the loving ceremony, I don't care about these interviews, nbc why
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Feb 10, 2018 02:19
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Mike Pence brought Otto Warmbier's dad. Cool. Lots of good memories for him here.
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Feb 10, 2018 02:20
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NBC broadcast it live with no commentary or cuts this morning, the vod for taht might still exist somewhere on their site. namaste to anyone who has to deal with NBC commentary, even CBC's drove me to go back to NBC's zero commentary stream lol
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Feb 10, 2018 04:05
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What's it going to take for one of the other networks to put together a winning bid, short of their news department finding the IOC president on the piss tape?
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Feb 10, 2018 13:48
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the IOC is horribly corrupt and the olympics themselves are devastating to the local community so having the broadcast be an unbearable hell seems fitting, tbqh
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Feb 10, 2018 16:02
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I was excited to watch on demand sports via Xfinity until nope, can't fast forward what the gently caress Comcast/nbc I don't think I'll ever get as good of coverage as the BBC's a few years ago just using a browser plugin . its so stupid to pay for this poo poo and I'm gonna cancel this stupid cable package
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Feb 10, 2018 16:20
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luv living in Germany and watching everything for free on public tv and streams, without commercials. For the comedy option you can also watch it for free on Eurosport, who do show commercials, and have worse production values.
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Feb 10, 2018 16:35
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It's pretty rad paying for a stream that's 1/3 commercials.
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Feb 10, 2018 17:15
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Internet Wizard posted:It's pretty rad paying for a stream that's 1/3 commercials. Cast the Canadian stream spell.
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Feb 10, 2018 17:21
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  I love you, CBC. I love you, CBET. 
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Feb 10, 2018 18:38
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I hate NBC's coverage so much. If there aren't any Americans competing they do not give a gently caress. And it's even worse with the Olympics on the other side of the planet because it's impossible to find archives of events that aren't DA GOLD ZONE which cuts out a ton of content.
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Feb 10, 2018 18:43
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maybe sometime by the time we're old the ioc will deem it worthy to just pump the world feeds out through a live stream / vod platform and you can select a commentary track to overlay like how they do with dotatv or whatever
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Feb 10, 2018 18:57
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Smythe posted:maybe sometime by the time we're old the ioc will deem it worthy to just pump the world feeds out through a live stream / vod platform and you can select a commentary track to overlay like how they do with dotatv or whatever is dotatv a sports channel?
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Feb 10, 2018 19:03
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oliwan posted:is dotatv a sports channel? its an art channel
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Feb 10, 2018 19:20
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Hi NBC I want to watch the Biathalon from this morning but you redirect everything http://stream.nbcolympics.com/biathlon-womens-sprint gently caress off, I wanna watch people ski and shoot.
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Feb 10, 2018 19:29
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I found an archive of the ski jump, slopestyle and luge from this morning so that's good. NBC has cut out something like half the luge competitors though and only put in the ones with good ~*storylines*~ so that's bad. gently caress you NBC I wanna see people sled 
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Feb 10, 2018 20:02
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Virigoth posted:Cast the Canadian stream spell. I've been doing that for a lot of stuff but the Canadian streams don't have Johnny Mosley being super excited about life.
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Feb 10, 2018 20:07
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Internet Wizard posted:I've been doing that for a lot of stuff but the Canadian streams don't have Johnny Mosley being super excited about life. I'll give you that. He was pretty excited.
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Feb 10, 2018 21:08
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axeil posted:I found an archive of the ski jump, slopestyle and luge from this morning so that's good. Get a VPN as directed and click this poo poo right here https://olympics.cbc.ca/schedule/sport=lg/full-schedule.html?intcmp=sr-overview All the luge. All of it.
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Feb 10, 2018 21:11
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nbc is real bad op
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Feb 10, 2018 23:02
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My buddy has the wav files for those john williams themes. He got them from his friend who works in sports production
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Feb 10, 2018 23:15
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Smythe posted:maybe sometime by the time we're old the ioc will deem it worthy to just pump the world feeds out through a live stream / vod platform and you can select a commentary track to overlay like how they do with dotatv or whatever I swear I had access to this 2 years ago for Rio via nbc, but now im thinking it was a live feed only with no vod which is effectively worthless. I can't even do a replay of the Americans curling win right now Anyone setup their Kodi to help with this? It's insane I have the full nbc sports package and can't see anything on replay. Two years ago it was just the great ioc feed and that's gone
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Feb 10, 2018 23:17
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Getting messages from my wife last night discussing her desire to murder the NBC commentary team and for all the human interest stories was pretty funny. I remember last time for Rio just getting a one month VPN and using BBC mostly. Luckily they had a commentary free and not switching away every five seconds version up this morning. The NBC Roku and iOS app isn’t horrible...if you look at it as a way to watch things after that occur and make no attempt to pursue live stuff with anything more then random chance. Once good things are the ads are part of the video file so you can just FF them. Seriously though what is the best VPN country CBC or BBC?
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Feb 11, 2018 01:00
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im gonna present this in gif format because it is literally that easy to setup and you have no excuse to keep watching NBC setupvpn: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/setupvpn-lifetime-free-vp/oofgbpoabipfcfjapgnbbjjaenockbdp?hl=en-US cbc's olympics schedule: https://olympics.cbc.ca/schedule/ https://i.imgur.com/ID1dlMd.mp4 i left out account creation but it's literally just punch in email then punch in the password they email you.
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Feb 11, 2018 01:04
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I bought sling for one month just for the olympics, and then it turns out they only have NBC and NBC sports, which is only like half of what they are broadcasting. Luckily, it still lets me use the NBC app, but it is super buggy on AppleTV. I bumped the remote and I went from halfway through a biathlon event to the very beginning, with no way to fast forward.
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Feb 11, 2018 01:09
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Misogynice Job! posted:My buddy has the wav files for those john williams themes. He got them from his friend who works in sports production CBC theme FTW: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00C7B57EA3D445AE Though they started reorchestrating it in 2004, and as of 2018 they've managed to suck ALL the oomph out of it... -_-
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Bird in a Blender posted:I bought sling for one month just for the olympics, and then it turns out they only have NBC and NBC sports, which is only like half of what they are broadcasting. Luckily, it still lets me use the NBC app, but it is super buggy on AppleTV. I bumped the remote and I went from halfway through a biathlon event to the very beginning, with no way to fast forward. i tried slingtv and it is a unbelievable piece of junk. i used a slingbox for years back in the day with an ir blaster on my parents cable box too so i really understand the lovely set top box experience. youtube tv has the same offerings as sling and is probably also terrible but idk if anything can be as bad. i gave up on those linear replacement services and just use my rabbit ears and the usual complement of ott services. derail, soz. anyways u can use a vpn and cbc or bbc or w/e i guess that counts as files since ur not paying a license for it  ? ?? ?? criminals itt. smdh
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Smythe posted:i tried slingtv and it is a unbelievable piece of junk. i used a slingbox for years back in the day with an ir blaster on my parents cable box too so i really understand the lovely set top box experience. youtube tv has the same offerings as sling and is probably also terrible but idk if anything can be as bad. i gave up on those linear replacement services and just use my rabbit ears and the usual complement of ott services. Sling on the roku and Amazon tv are pretty good but that's, like, just my opinion man 
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Feb 11, 2018 02:16
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AsInHowe posted:I love you, CBC. I love you, CBET. I grew up in one of the red spots on the map, we got CBC on cable because we could theoretically get it over the air with a big antenna the cable company started shutting off CBC during the olympics, in I think 2002 gently caress NBC and gently caress cable
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Feb 11, 2018 02:53
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NBC is broadcasting some snowboarding event on a 20 minute delay, so as the final round was on TV, people are getting tweets spoiling the winner Bang up job, NBC
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shyduck posted:NBC is broadcasting some snowboarding event on a 20 minute delay, so as the final round was on TV, people are getting tweets spoiling the winner my listings say it was supposed to be live on nbcsn the men's downhill was postponed and i guess they needed something else to fill time whatever, continue the narrative
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