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Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby roger/over » Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:46 pm

It may already be in here somewhere, but has anyone found an internet site that promises to cover every vault of the qualifications and/or finals? If so, could you post the address? Thanks for any info.

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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:48 pm

If it is online anywhere I will have it here :D

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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby txpolevaulter_k25 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:02 pm

There was some website I heard of that would air videos of the events, but they only cater to windows users...so us mac people are left out :crying:
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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby Split » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:09 pm

txpolevaulter_k25 wrote:There was some website I heard of that would air videos of the events, but they only cater to windows users...so us mac people are left out :crying:


I have windows. :D
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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:39 am

txpolevaulter_k25 wrote:There was some website I heard of that would air videos of the events, but they only cater to windows users...so us mac people are left out :crying:


NBCOlympics.com but I really don't think they are showing the track events live. Plus I think you have to have Windows Vista to make it work.

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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby txpolevaulter_k25 » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:44 am

Yeah, it is vist. Somebody with vista should go check it out.
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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby achtungpv » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:41 pm

I have Vista on one of my laptops. The video quality is easily some of the best I've seen on the web ever. I imagine there's an unreal amount of bandwidth being used but it literally only buffers for 5 seconds to start and I've ran it for over an hour straight without it rebuffering.
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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby Darth Vaulter » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:57 pm

I have a Mac Powerbook. I just went to the NBC site. When I clicked that I wanted to watch live video it informed me that I needed to download and install a free plug-in for Microsoft Silverlight to watch on my Mac. I was watching the Brazil/Hungary Womens Team Handball game live within three minutes (including the time to download and install Silverlight). The video quality is very good.
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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby LHSvaulter » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:17 am

Its a little out of date, but via a feature in Windows Media Center on my laptop, I was able to download high quality footage of the Women's Trials from Eugene that NBC aired. I am using a program called TV Tonic. I can't figure out where the file is stored on my computer, so I can't upload it for the time. I'll keep working on it though. ;)

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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby Pogo Stick » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:50 am

CBC has live video of events:
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/livevideo/#
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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:28 am

Here is NBC Olympics Live Online Coverage Schedule: http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_onlin ... nline.html

No track and field.

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Re: Internet Olympic Coverage?

Unread postby achtungpv » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:00 am

rainbowgirl28 wrote:Here is NBC Olympics Live Online Coverage Schedule: http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_onlin ... nline.html

No track and field.



Even if it's not on the live schedule, it may appear afterwards under "Long-form Rewinds". This is the unedited video feed of single events. With any luck there will be a camera dedicated to each field event.
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