Written by Chris Albrecht
Posted Monday, August 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM PT

 

A Guide for the Olympics Online

There’s a lot of hubbub over how much of the Olympics will be online this year. Despite the fact that NBC is delaying the webcasting of popular events until after they air on the Pacific Coast, there’s still so much video that we thought we’d help you out by giving you a handy-dandy guide to what’s available and where.

Here’s where to feed your Olympics coverage addiction:

WHERE TO WATCH THE OLYMPICS
Location Content
NBCOlympics.com Home for all things Olympic:
  • 2,200 hours of streamed video content
  • 20 concurrent streams covering 25 Olympic sports
  • 3,000 hours of on-demand content (full-event replays, highlights, recaps, athlete-specific clips)
  • Personalized viewer guide and schedule to find when events are on TV and online
  • Destination Beijing video about the host city
  • Widget to embed Olympic video on personal pages
  • Vlogs: Olympians provide personally-shot, homes style video of their lives
Telemundo.NBCOlympics.com A Spanish language “near-clone” of the English site with comprehensive coverage including video.
TVTonic Download and watch full-length Olympic events, even when offline (requires Windows Vista).
Mobile Web (http://mobile.nbcolympics.com) Highlights Daily news Exclusive mobile on-demand video content
Mobile TV 24/7 channel featuring best of the Beijing Games (available to AT&T MediaFLO subscribers).
VOD Daily highlights and long-form coverage of the games Exclusive HD content (check with your cable or satellite operator for availability)
Interactive TV Users can access top news stories, updated medal counts, Olympic TV listings and profiles of Team USA (check with local provider for availability)

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  1. [...] posting later tonight on where to watch the Olympics from the U.S. (Update: Post is here.) If you have any tips or tricks about where to watch from around the world, let us [...]

    Brightcove to Power Japanese Olympics Coverage « NewTeeVee on August 4th, 2008 at 8:02 am - Permalink
  2. I still can’t figure out what the numbers in the gold circles mean on NBC’s guide. Though I did discover much of the content I want to watch (online) is midnight - 4am - hopefully they’ll archive ALL of it for more reasonable viewing hours.

    Dave Zatz on August 4th, 2008 at 8:32 am - Permalink
  3. [...] that YouTube is being used as the default here. In the U.S., for instance, there will be much broader coverage available online, but users will have to download Microsoft’s Silverlight and wait for the events broadcast on [...]

    YouTube to Get Olympics, But (Probably) Not for You « NewTeeVee on August 4th, 2008 at 8:48 am - Permalink
  4. This is helpful. Is there a link somewhere of the 25 sports that will be carried live online?

    Daisy Whitney on August 4th, 2008 at 9:11 am - Permalink
  5. [...] From our friends at NewTeeVee.com [...]

    Where to Watch the Olympics Online on August 4th, 2008 at 11:41 am - Permalink
  6. Ok thanks for the official line on where to get authorized sanitized streams .

    Now where are all the Unauthorized ,gritty ,user gen streams like p2p streaming ,mobile video ect that NBC China and the Olympics dont want us to watch

    Matt_ on August 5th, 2008 at 6:15 am - Permalink
  7. Coming today, Matt!

    Liz Gannes on August 5th, 2008 at 8:03 am - Permalink
  8. Yeaah!
    Watch 2008 Beijing Olympics online at THIS
    HIGH QUALITY STREAM

    ghghgchgc on August 7th, 2008 at 9:13 am - Permalink
  9. [...] our guide to “official” places to watch the Olympics [...]

    Let the Games Begin (Online) « NewTeeVee on August 8th, 2008 at 7:37 am - Permalink
  10. There are a couple of free olympic streams here. I’m checking out TVUPlayer too to see what I can find on there.

    Richard on August 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am - Permalink
  11. [...] donne une liste des sites sur lesquels on peut trouver de la vidéo . N’oubliez pas de lire les commentaires et leurs [...]

    Petit guide pour suivre les Jeux online - Transnets - Blog LeMonde.fr on August 8th, 2008 at 11:18 pm - Permalink
  12. [...] les JO en ligne sur les sites de France 2 et Canal+ (même si ici en Autriche ça ne marche pas) - NewTeeVee propose sa liste de sites pour voir les JO sur son ordinateur ou sur son mobile - ValleyWag propose [...]

    JO= Jeux Olympiques ou Jeux Online « Mon Blog techno en Français on August 10th, 2008 at 12:21 am - Permalink
  13. tnx for sharing the sites! :D

    horseracing on August 11th, 2008 at 8:50 am - Permalink
  14. I’m late for the olympic games but never too late for sharing…
    Thanks for your action man !
    ;)

    Css online on October 5th, 2008 at 3:14 am - Permalink

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