EPT[Olympics] Rio de Janeiro 2016 - Page 12
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ZeaL.
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FiWiFaKi
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Belisarius
Australia6233 Posts
400m men's freestyle was exciting too. Felt bad for the British guy who went hard too early. | ||
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sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
I figured allowing forward passes would probably ruin the game, but I kind of wanted to see some dimes dropped in the endzone once in awhile lol. | ||
Inflicted
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Zooper31
United States5711 Posts
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ZeaL.
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Zooper31
United States5711 Posts
On August 07 2016 11:59 ZeaL. wrote: Get a proxy and watch CBC/BBC Just spend 30min trying to find one that actually worked and got nothing but annoyed lol. | ||
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
Some of their bullshit so far: 1. Apparently tried to petition the Olympic committee to change the order of the parade of nations from alphabetical Portuguese to alphabetical English 2. Showed the opening ceremony on a time delay (presumably to add more commercials and edit North Korea out of the parade) 3. When Djibouti came out during the parade they make a 'check out ya booty' joke 4. Put little green yellow and red arrows next to the scores in Gymnastics to indicate if a score is good or bad or so-so, presumably because their viewers are too dumb to read a scoreboard 5. Whitewashed the Colonization part of the opening performance piece by referring to this part of Brazil's history as "immigration" 6. Skipped talking about several nations altogether to discuss the play "Hamilton" Did I mention the shit commentary and endless commercials? | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On August 07 2016 12:02 Zooper31 wrote: Just spend 30min trying to find one that actually worked and got nothing but annoyed lol. Spend the $8 for Tunnelbear and use CBC (Canada), that's my recommendation, I've been very happy with the coverage here, and very happy with Tunnelbear too. You get 500MB to try using before you need a paid account. @TheFish7 What, I have yet to watch a single commercial with adblock enabled... o.o The only commercials I end up seeing are the ones on the dedicated TV channels. | ||
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zev318
Canada4306 Posts
On August 07 2016 12:14 TheFish7 wrote: NBC is horrible. The games are fun to watch in spite of them. Some of their bullshit so far: 1. Apparently tried to petition the Olympic committee to change the order of the parade of nations from alphabetical Portuguese to alphabetical English 2. Showed the opening ceremony on a time delay (presumably to add more commercials and edit North Korea out of the parade) 3. When Djibouti came out during the parade they make a 'check out ya booty' joke 4. Put little green yellow and red arrows next to the scores in Gymnastics to indicate if a score is good or bad or so-so, presumably because their viewers are too dumb to read a scoreboard 5. Whitewashed the Colonization part of the opening performance piece by referring to this part of Brazil's history as "immigration" 6. Skipped talking about several nations altogether to discuss the play "Hamilton" Did I mention the shit commentary and endless commercials? the score thing is ok, i mean if a casual fan tunes in in the middle of gymnastics, they honestly could be confused on what is a good score. its not as straight forward as swimming, where whoever gets to the finish first wins. im just sad that i cant watch the basketball games cause canada blows at it and will never cover it until the medal rounds. | ||
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andrewlt
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On August 07 2016 12:39 zev318 wrote: the score thing is ok, i mean if a casual fan tunes in in the middle of gymnastics, they honestly could be confused on what is a good score. its not as straight forward as swimming, where whoever gets to the finish first wins. im just sad that i cant watch the basketball games cause canada blows at it and will never cover it until the medal rounds. You can watch EVERY SINGLE EVENT that is played at the olympics. Every single one, every single heat, every single piece of video footage exists on the CBC website if you're in Canada. We get the main feed from all the events that the entire world gets, and we get them completely unfiltered. Only if you watch the dedicated shows that hop around events on TV are you limited with what you see. People are complaining for no fucking reason. On August 07 2016 12:40 andrewlt wrote: Another annoying thing about NBC coverage is that the 5pm-8pm time slot for the major stations is reserved for local affiliates. So they have to show local news everyday and have to show the Olympics on tape delay afterwards. If you use NBC online and sign up with your cable account you have access to everything. Move with the times, watch online, and see everything  I would enjoy watching some NBC coverage, if anyone in the US feels like allowing me to use their log in information for their cable purely for authentication, I'd be forever in your debt. | ||
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zev318
Canada4306 Posts
On August 07 2016 12:43 FiWiFaKi wrote: You can watch EVERY SINGLE EVENT that is played at the olympics. Every single one, every single heat, every single piece of video footage exists on the CBC website if you're in Canada. We get the main feed from all the events that the entire world gets, and we get them completely unfiltered. Only if you watch the dedicated shows that hop around events on TV are you limited with what you see. People are complaining for no fucking reason. i mean that's ok for people who has access for that stuff. apparently its not ok if i dont? like im really sorry if i can't do that at work and can only watch it on tv. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On August 07 2016 12:45 zev318 wrote: i mean that's ok for people who has access for that stuff. apparently its not ok if i dont? like im really sorry if i can't do that at work and can only watch it on tv. Well they are all saved, so you can watch everything once you get home as well. Or you can connect a $300 dollar laptop with the stream with an HDMI cable to your TV... There's just so many solutions to have a service 100x better than watching it on TV. And I'm truly don't think there's many people out there, especially ones who visit teamliquid, that have the single option of only watching it on TV. My mom is watching it on her iPad, I can watch on my phone, or I can cast it from my phone to my TV, laptop, desktop, HDMI to TV, have a pure audio stream instead of music (at work), etc. I suppose if you're work in some customer service where there are TV's for the customers, then yes, that is one of the exceptions, but even that I think most people could circumvent. Either way, apologies, I didn't mean to get so aggressive, you're right that there's a few people who have no choice but to use the TV, but I felt (and still think), that it's an overwhelming minority (at least the people here, which is where the advice was pointed towards). | ||
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
Anyway CDC is not available in my region. Trust me Canadians, I would love nothing more than to leech off of your taxpayer funded stuff but I don't feel like setting up a VPN right now? Or is there a better way to watch I don't know about? | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
On August 07 2016 13:13 TheFish7 wrote: I know it's possible to avoid NBC's coverage of the Olympics with a little ingenuity, what I'm saying is that their coverage is shit. Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On August 07 2016 13:13 TheFish7 wrote: I know it's possible to avoid NBC's coverage of the Olympics with a little ingenuity, what I'm saying is that their coverage is shit. Anyway CDC is not available in my region. Trust me Canadians, I would love nothing more than to leech off of your taxpayer funded stuff but I don't feel like setting up a VPN right now? Or is there a better way to watch I don't know about? Setting up a VPN takes about 3 minutes, so "I don't feel like setting up a VPN right now" is an odd thing to say... But you can easily just find a schedule and use free streaming sites to watch everything in 360p or so, but it's more tedious, and lower quality. And you have to keep finding new streams for the other events. | ||
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andrewlt
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