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The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are upon us and will continue to 23 February.
Very few countries are broadcasting the games due to
expensive broadcasting rights, but there is good news. Some of the main
countries streaming the event live online include the US, UK, Australia,
Canada and, unsurprisingly, most Nordic countries. If you live in the
States you will need a subscription to the US network NBC, which has the
broadcasting rights, and if you don’t live in the other countries
streaming the games, regular access will be pretty much impossible.
Many winter sports fans based in countries without coverage
may have given up on the idea of watching one of the many events such
as curling, ice hockey, and snowboarding, but a VPN can easily make this
possible.
We’re currently seeing a massive increase for our VPN
service, particularly for our Norwegian servers, and we guess these are
Norwegian expats wanting to watch the Olympics. For those of you who
aren’t able to watch the games, you just need to purchase HMA! Pro VPN
where our VPN will assign you a different IP address (choose from 68,000
IP addresses located in 132 locations, in 63 countries). If, for
example, you want to watch the games shown by a UK channel, simply
connect to a UK based server and head to one of the channels who are
broadcasting it and hey presto! You are now virtually residing in the
UK; every online activity you perform is as if you are in the UK,
therefore, you can watch the games.
It gets even better as we have upgraded a number of our
servers, meaning that you will have even faster connections during this
winter Olympic season. You can enjoy the games from anywhere you are in
the world. I think that deserves a gold medal!
That’s great news for Olympics fans who want to watch everything as
it happens, since the network’s primetime telecasts will obviously be
tape-delayed. The big catch: You have to be a cable or satellite
subscriber.
The online streams will include both the same live coverage you’d get
on NBC’s cable channels and world feeds of individual events, NBC told
me. The only thing that NBC won’t be streaming online are Friday’s
opening ceremonies. “We want to put context to it, with the full
pageantry it deserves,” NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus semi-explained to Variety. (As viewers learned in 2012, that’s NBC-speak for Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira chortling at their own ignorance.)
Cord-cutters,
on the other hand, have nothing to cheer about, unless they live
outside the United States. To access the coverage, you have to log in
through your cable or satellite provider or try your luck with a live
stream from overseas.
On one level, it’s understandable that NBC would prefer not to make
its full suite of live coverage available to people who don’t pay for
its cable channels. The network paid $4.3 billion for the exclusive U.S.
broadcast rights to the Olympics through 2020, and it wants to maximize
its return on that investment. It does feel a little insulting, though,
that those who have Internet service but not a TV can’t even watch the
same network telecast that’s available for free over the air. Fox, by
contrast, made its live stream of the Super Bowl available to everyone.
For those determined to watch some of the Olympics live without
signing up for cable, there are a handful of potential loopholes.
First, you can pick a few scraps of online coverage via a “temporary pass” that NBCOlympics.com will offer to unverified users.
That’s good for 30 minutes of live streaming the first time you visit
the site, but just five minutes a day thereafter, so you’ll have to plan
carefully.
Second, you can of course watch NBC’s primetime coverage over the air
if you have a digital antenna. The broadcast coverage starts Thursday
at 8 p.m. eastern, and you can find a full listings of times and events here.
Third, perhaps you know someone who has a cable-TV username and password and would be willing to share. You’d probably be breaking the law to take advantage of this, but that doesn’t stop a lot of people from doing it—or even writing New York Times stories about it.
Finally, depending on your scruples, you can take advantage of the
fact that the United Kingdom and Canada do not discriminate against
cord-cutters. As Forbes’ Amadou Diallo explains in his excellent guide to watching the Sochi Olympics without a cable bill, both the BBC and the CBC
will offer extensive free live coverage of the events to online viewers
in their respective markets. The catch is that your access will be
blocked if you try to watch from the United States. It’s possible to get
around this restriction using a virtual private network, or VPN, which
can be configured to replace your normal IP address with one based in a
different country.
As with logging in via someone else’s account, this is clearly against the terms of service for both the BBC and the CBC. Forbes’
Diallo goes into a lot of detail about the legality/illegality of using
a VPN to watch overseas coverage. The short version: It’s very unlikely
you’ll be prosecuted. So I guess the question is, just how badly do you
want to watch the Winter Olympics?
Considering that NBC will live stream every second of competition during the Sochi Winter Olympics
to those with a pay-TV subscription, it came as a bit of a surprise
when the network announced in early January that it will delay airing
the opening ceremony for eight and a half hours.
NBC Universal executives explained that streaming the grandiose
ceremony so early in the day (U.S. viewers on the East Coast would have
seen it at 11 a.m.) would be both confusing and underwhelming.
Of course, this poses a problem for Twitter
users, as viewers in other countries without restrictions will spoil
the event. U.S. viewers hoping to watch BBC or CBC coverage are also out
of luck, as those stations are required to restrict streaming access to
U.S. viewers due to broadcast rights.
For those keen on watching and following the opening ceremony, we've compiled the following guide.
If
you're a viewer in the U.S. who doesn't mind waiting eight and a half
hours to watch the ceremony, you can always watch the event on NBC when
it begins. Canadian and European viewers will be able to watch the
ceremony without a tape delay, so check your providers' schedule to find
out when the event will be broadcast.
On Twitter
For a behind-the-scenes look, you can follow the athletes, reporters
and attendees who will be at the opening ceremony as it happens. The @Sochi2014 account will cover the event, as well as the major broadcasting corporations outside the U.S., such as the @CBCOlympics account or any number of BBC reporters who will be covering the ceremony from Sochi.
Twitter has already compiled a handy list of verified Olympians, and you can watch the stream update in real-time while the ceremony is underway.
On Instagram
If the days leading up to the big event are any indication, athletes and reporters will likely take to Instagram to share photos of the ceremony as it happens. The New York Times put together a list of 10 notable olympians who are active on the network and worth a follow leading up to the ceremony.
Live streaming the Winter Olympics online has become as much of a
tradition as the torch-lighting ceremony because TV networks haven't
been willing to broadcast the games in real-time through normal
channels. The 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia are going to be no different
as the host city is half-way around the world for many fans.
In
the past, time-zone differences have meant watching tape-delayed events
on TV, including some of the most popular sports: figure skating, alpine
skiing, snowboarding and hockey. The internet, especially Twitter, has
played spoiler to who won the gold medal in each.
But the web has
also provided a solution through online streaming more Olympic events
than any one network can handle. NBC for one plans to air more than
1,500 hours of Winter Games coverage through its TV networks, websites
and apps.
It's a vast amount of content, but finding the more than
1,000 hours that are supposed to be streamed through the web has become
an Olympic sport of its own and requires practice, practice, practice.
Watching from a much warmer vantage point
Watch the Games on the web
The
Olympics are truly an international sporting event with NBC in the US,
BBC in the UK, CBC in Canada, and Network Ten in Australia all promising
snow-wall-to-snow-wall coverage on the web.
NBC is putting hard
numbers behind that promise, saying it'll stream every single
medal-winning performance of all 98 events in all 15 winter sport
disciplines through NBCOlympics.com.
That's
easier said than done. Users must first pass through NBC's strict
authentication methods that require logging in via a cable or satellite
account. This means cord cutters and over-the-air antenna watchers are
locked out.
Sorry, cord cutters. A cable or satellite account is required in the US.
Once
authenticated, it's up to NBC to make good on its promise to
competently stream the Games. The #nbcfail hashtag was born two years
ago out of users' frustration at buffering times during the Summer
Olympic Games in London. It was impossible to faithfully watch a second
of some of the most popular streams in real-time; the 100-meter dash
consisted of a starting gun and an instant winner thanks to choppy
video. This year will hopefully be different.
Canada, through the CBC,
has restrictions in place so that non-Canadian geo-tagged IP addresses
prevent them from tapping into the network's live Opening Ceremony feed.
A VPN workaround is required to watch it in the morning vs its
tape-delayed broadcast on NBC.
The BBC will attempt a similar feat in the UK through its BBC Sport website boasting six HD streams with a total of 650 hours of Winter Olympics coverage.
In Australia, the Ten Network has the rights to broadcast the Olympics and a streaming platform to go along with that via its Ten Play website.
Watch the Games on a mobile device
Live
streaming through smartphones and tablets is more prevalent at the
Sochi Winter Olympics compared to four years ago when the Vancouver
Games were held. After all, the iPad hadn't even been announced at the time.
Networks
are no longer turning a cold shoulder to tiny screens, with apps
available on all three major platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.
iOS, Android, Windows Phone: A triple appxel
In
fact, NBC has two apps dedicated to its 1,000-plus hours of mobile
streaming content. NBC Sports Live Extra and its second-screen NBC
Olympics Highlights and Results. Live Extra is obviously the more
desired app of the two due to its live streaming capabilities, but like
the NBCOlympics.com website, it too requires account authentication.
The
official CBC Sochi 2014 app is the best way for Canadian viewers to
watch the games on the go from an iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8
device.
The BBC Sport app works on iOS and Android smartphones and
tablets, and while we haven't found a way for Windows Phone 8 users to
enjoy the games in the UK, the network is catering to owners of Amazon's
Kindle Fire tablets.
Australia's Ten Network has live mobile feed has eight simultaneous streams available on both iOS and Android devices.
How to stream to a TV
Appreciating the frozen landscape of
Sochi, Russia by watching the Winter Olympics on a normal-sized TV
without a cable box or a satellite dish requires some extra gadgets.
The easiest way is to beam the streaming picture from an Apple computer, smartphone or tablet to an Apple TV via AirPlay mirroring. This wireless connection beats having to run wires from a device to the television, and Google's Chromecast doesn't have similar mirroring just yet.
This is as long as NBC doesn't disable AirPlay mirroring like Fox Sports Go did for the English version of its Super Bowl live streaming app earlier this week. For some reason, the Spanish-language feed worked just fine.
Apple TV or a regular old HDMI cord can do the trick
Alternatively,
you can always run an HDMI or Mini DisplayPort cable from a computer or
laptop to the TV for the hardwired method of porting the small-screen
picture to an HDTV.
Finally, folks in Australia will be able to download the Xbox One and Xbox 360 Ten Play app to conveniently stream coverage of the Olympics to their HDTVs via Microsoft's consoles.
How to watch the Opening Ceremony
Online
streaming of the Winter Olympics starts off with a whimper rather a
starting pistol bang because several TV networks won't be streaming the
elaborate Opening Ceremony. Most time zones would have to air the
choreographed spectacle in the morning.
The Opening Ceremony will
be tape-delayed to 7:30 p.m. EST in the United States, but America's
neighbor to the north will be streaming it live.
The problem is
that geo-tagged IP addresses are sure to turn away US viewers wanting to
tap. Setting up a VPN ahead of time could give you a nine hour jump on
the Opening Ceremony.
Seeing this four-hour live stream,
including the seemingly endless parade of athletes, at 11:30 EST may
come down to whether or not your IP address is turned away at the
border.
With the 2014 Sochi Olympics finally kicking off on Feb. 6, many of
you will be wondering where to watch the Games — live — 24/7. Get the
scoop on where and when to watch your favorite events below!
NBC has finally embraced Olympic livestreaming, and we at HollywoodLife.com couldn’t be more thrilled.
Winter Olympics Live Stream — Where To Watch The 2014 Sochi Olympic Games Online
With 15 sports, 18 days, and 95 medal events to cover, NBC certainly
has a lot of Sochi to cover! Luckily, the Peacock has decided to embrace
the modern age and livestream everything directly online. Those who
want to watch their favorite events — like figure skating and hockey —
in primetime can still check in with Bob Costas and the
gang, but those of us who need our 24/7 fix can get it at the link
below, essentially eliminating that pesky nine-hour time difference
(from Eastern Standard Time) that has made Olympics viewing so difficult
in the past:
Beginning on Thursday, Feb. 6, with preliminary rounds of
Snowboarding, Freestyle Skiing and Figure Skating, every phase of every
competition from all 15 sports will be streamed on the site AND via
mobile app.
Television coverage will also expand to 18 days for the first time in
Winter Games history, with the addition of a Thursday night NBC
Primetime show on Feb. 6, before the Opening Ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 7. Live daytime broadcasts begin Saturday, Feb. 8, on the NBC Sports Network.
Super Bowl XLVIII will pit the NFL's two best teams against each other when the Seattle Seahawks take on the Denver Broncos in the elements at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday.
For those football fans or casual viewers who won't have access to a television on Super Bowl Sunday, Fox Sports' live stream provides an ideal alternative.
Whether you're looking to stream the big game live from your laptop or hoping to check in on the action from your tablet, the free one-day preview of Fox Sports Go has you covered.
Below we'll set you up with everything you need to know to make sure you don't miss a minute of the action.
Spread: Denver (-2.5) over Seattle, according to Vegas Insider
Super Bowl XLVIII Live Stream Will Be Free for All
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The good news for anyone hoping to stream this year's Super Bowl: You won't have to worry about dropping any cash or signing up for any long-term membership.
How do you plan on watching Super Bowl XLVIII?
According to Variety's Todd Spangler, "Fox Sports will use Super Bowl XLVIII as a showcase for its online and mobile authentication service for pay-TV subscribers, offering a free, one-day 'preview' of Fox Sports Go during TV’s biggest event."
Spangler adds that the free preview will last 27 hours, spanning from 12 a.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 2 and continuing through 3 a.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 3. That means that viewers will also be able to stream the halftime show, which will feature Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers live from inside MetLife Stadium.
Online users who are watching on a computer or laptop can log on toFoxSportsGo.com on Sunday evening to start viewing pregame coverage. Those watching on an iPad or other tablet device will have to download the Fox Sports Go application.
As Spangler points out, smartphone users will need to download NFL Mobile from Verizon in order to catch all the action live on their phones.
Online Viewers Will Have to Go Elsewhere for Laughs
While online viewers streaming the Super Bowl on Fox Sports Go will see plenty of commercials during the various breaks in action, the live stream's ads will differ from those that appear on the television broadcast.
According to Spangler, Fox sold its digital airtime separately from the television inventory.
However, online users can catch up on any television commercials they miss by visiting YouTube or Hulu. Both websites will be featuring the popular Super Bowl ads during and after the big game. Some will even be made available days in advance of the television broadcast premiere.
Considering viewers can enjoy both the game and the commercials online for free, who needs a television?
