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Re:NBC's broken Olympic coverage by Sukotto on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @01:05AM (#1144853)
My family doesn't own a tv. For the Summer Olympics there was lots of official online content. The winter games? ... not so much.

Sure there are lots of official stats out there, but I was unable to find the figure skating for my wife. In the end, she was reduced to watching it in Greek (we think) on a tiny Justintv station.

NBC paid a lot of money to secure coverage of the games. I wish they had put more effort into making them actually available to people.

Re:NBC's broken Olympic coverage by silverpen on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @01:13AM (#1144863)
Is http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/index.html available to those outside of Canada?

Because CTV (Canadian company with broadcasting rights to the olympics) really did an excellent job of presenting the olympics this year.

Re:NBC's broken Olympic coverage by delackner on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @02:59AM (#1144981)
Trying that link from Tokyo, it doesn't mention access restrictions, but video also doesn't load. It just says it is experiencing loading difficulties.

Market failure -> people will find a way.

Re:NBC's broken Olympic coverage by Sukotto on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:14AM (#1148013)
Tried that. Didn't work.

Video player spins forever with the message "we're experiencing temporary difficulty"