Watch the Olympics Online
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If you can put all of the human rights issues, terrorist threats, political tit-for-tat and bad press to the back of your mind then there are loads of places on the web that you can follow your countries progress at the Olympics. Presented here is the cream of the crop.
Live Stream and On Demand
NBC Olympics If you are in the United States then NBC has gotten this pretty well sewn up and viewers will be blocked from viewing the footage on the non-NBC sites. You could always cheat.
Everyone else should be ok…
YouTube 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.
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.
Peer to Peer
Top torrent-tracking sites to try include isoHunt, Mininova and EZTV. Need a ‘How-To’ on using BitTorrent? Read the Wired How-To Wiki entry on the subject.
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.
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.
Keeping Track
iGoogle See a Google Map of medals, YouTube video highlights, Google News headlines, a 3D video tour plus Sketchup models of the venues, and add an iGoogle gadget that tracks medal counts to your Google homepage.
Adapted from “Watch the Olympics Online” - A Wired Wiki
Further reading: The Definitive Guide to Watching the Olympics Online - ValleyWag
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