NBC = FAIL! Olympics edition....

[Highway Star]

Sure you could see this coming, but if you go to NBC's website, there are no live streams or replays or anything of today's events. CBC already has livestreamed moguls and slopestyle qualifiers, and has it available for playback.........if you live in Canada.

FAIL!!!!!

 

[fbrissette]

Look at the bright side, you'll get to see lots of figure skating...

 

[spiderpig]

"First, NBC is streaming everything -- 1,000+ hours of events -- on NBCOlympics.com. "

Yes, they should have replays. http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/olympics/extras/olympics_blog/2014/02/some_need-to-kn.html

 

[St. Bear]

The Summer Olympics in 2012 had replays of everything available.

 

[timm]

The NBC Olympics web page is a mess. Streams and replays of everything are available but good luck finding them or figuring out when anything is going to be on TV (and on what channel).
You can't search the TV schedule by event (and the listings are just multi hour blocks with half a dozen different events listed inside them). There is a sortable event schedule, but that lists the actual event times, not broadcast times, and does not link in any way to the TV schedule.

Men's downhill medal competition is at 2am on Sunday morning (EST) according to the event schedule. What time is it on TV? Not at 2am on Sunday -- that's when they're replaying stuff from the previous day. So who knows!

Just terrible.

 

[billski]

Get a VPN account and dial into cbc.ca. They're not live (hey it's 2AM), but replayed in their entirety later the same day. That's my modus operandi.

 

[Highway Star]

You have to have cable TV to be able to watch live streams. Fail. I have an antenna and actually watch NBC over the air. No streams for me!

 

[BenedictGomez]

Men's downhill medal competition is at 2am on Sunday morning (EST) according to the event schedule. What time is it on TV? Not at 2am on Sunday -- that's when they're replaying stuff from the previous day. So who knows!

Just terrible.

Is there any way to watch it live on NBC's internet?

If not, I might have to go to one of those pirate websites run out of Europe and watch it on my computer.

But come hell-or-high-water, I'll be watching the men's downhill live.

 

[BenedictGomez]

You have to have cable TV to be able to watch live streams. Fail. I have an antenna and actually watch NBC over the air. No streams for me!

To be fair, they probably make certain assumptions about their viewing audience.

Like the fact that 98.975% of them are living in the 21st Century.

 

[Highway Star]

To be fair, they probably make certain assumptions about their viewing audience.

Like the fact that 98.975% of them are living in the 21st Century.

Actually, I'm solidly in the 21st century, most people are living in the 20th century with cable tv.....

- fios internet ($50/month)
- 1080p projector on 120" screen
- dedicated Gaming/HTPC with high end video card, SSD, tv tuner card w/antenna, wireless keyboard, etc

 

[fbrissette]

- 1080p projector on 120" screen

That is so 2010. Get yourself an 80 inches LED tv and enjoy true image clarity.8)

 

[timm]

Is there any way to watch it live on NBC's internet?

If not, I might have to go to one of those pirate websites run out of Europe and watch it on my computer.

But come hell-or-high-water, I'll be watching the men's downhill live.

Presumably it will be streamed live? But there's not any information about where or how you watch the event live in the event schedules so just a wait and see situation. But you'd think a relatively high profile event like downhill would be broadcast live on television on at least some channel. I'd rather either get up early or DVR it and be able to see it on my nice tv rather than have to watch it on my tiny computer screen.

 

[Highway Star]

That is so 2010. Get yourself an 80 inches LED tv and enjoy true image clarity.8)

LCD/LED tv's = FAIL. My 2013 model DLP projector handles motion better than any LCD ever made, colors and blacks are just as good. Only thing that can beat it is plasma but good luck getting any bigger than 65".

Oh, and by the way....a 120" screen is more than double the size of an 80". 125% more viewable area. Enjoy your tiny TV!

 

[timm]

Only thing that can beat it is plasma but good luck getting any bigger than 65".

Sharp makes an 80" plasma I think but if I was gonna pay the kind of money they charge for those I wouldn't want a Sharp TV anyways...

 

[Highway Star]

80" LCD's are becoming more common. Panasonic offers a 85" (over $10k) and 103" plasma's (over $30k).

 

[bigbog]

Look at the bright side, you'll get to see lots of figure skating...

CBC TV(TWC Maine) = live in our mornings. (WC on many Sunday nights is so nice too).
Imagine live events via satellite feed....OH WAIT, we got the 68' Olympics live from Innsbruck...via Tellstar. Picture wasn't that great and was B&W(color maybe), but it was live. Don't remember a moguls event..just JC Killy, Billy Kidd...etc. What a friggin' greedy, good-for-the-wealthy-only media...

 

[ss20]

- 1080p projector on 120" screen

Didn't know you live in a movie theater :grin:

 

[deadheadskier]

80" LCD's are becoming more common. Panasonic offers a 85" (over $10k) and 103" plasma's (over $30k).

those prices seem crazy considering you can get a 60" Panasonic Plasma for around $2500-$3000

I wonder what warrants the extra cost? The fact that people willing to pay for that kind of TV have money to burn?

 

[Nick]

Vizio 70" is around 1500?

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[Nick]

Also ow would love a projector but you need a dark room.

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