I’m wound up about NBC’s Olympic handling right now. I don’t have cable TV, but I do use Time Warner for Internet; we watch TV with a Roku hooked to a 28” LCD monitor, which works perfectly for streaming Netflix and the like. But if you want to watch the live streaming Olympic coverage at nbcolympics.com, you MUST apparently have service with certain cable TV providers and you MUST apparently have a level of service that already provides you CNBC and MSNBC. If you don’t, you can’t watch the Olympics online.
To me, this is insanity. I would gladly pony up a pay-per-view fee for Olympic streaming coverage, on the Roku or on my computer, so my little girl can watch some of the events. She’d probably love gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics and she loves watching basketball. But because I don’t want to pay for the “privilege” of supporting Jim Cramer and Rachel Maddow, NBC makes it impossible for me to watch the Olympics *at all* via the Internet except if I find a pirated stream. It’s an insane and stupid business model.
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Yeah, I found that out as well. I have T-W cable Internet, but we don’t have TV.
The Olympic stream site asks you for your provider - I entered Time Warner.
It showed about 5 frames of video then announced that I didn’t have the right service level.
I want to watch the thing on NBC Internet, but they won’t let me watch it on the net, because.... I don’t have TV.
How stupid is that?
Did you take a look at
www.nbcolympics.com
I signed in as a Time Warner customer and have been watching streaming events