Olympic coverage in HD

[Cosimo]

YouTube has live streams? Where are they?

I was going to watch on the BBC website seeing as my PC is plugged into the HDTV but they have a ridiculous new player which surrounds the video with black bars now!

It will only be streamed to:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

And in 42 Sub-Saharan African territories on a non-exclusive basis, including:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

It won't be here as digital broadcast rights have already been acquired by the IOC's broadcast partners, i.e the BBC:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/06/youtube-london-olympics-asia-africa/

 

[robfosters]

First impressions are excellent PQ. Very sharp and vivid.

 

[robfosters]

Don;t want to be petty, but apparently everything is covered. So please tell me why there is no coverage of the Archery qualifying on Friday morning?

 

[Cosimo]

Don;t want to be petty, but apparently everything is covered. So please tell me why there is no coverage of the Archery qualifying on Friday morning?

It should be on one of BBC Olympic channels 1/2/3 starting at 08:50.

 

[Cosimo]

It's not there. I presume a ranking round doesn't count as the start of the proper competition. Any archery experts around to comfirm?

 

[antijoke]

I hope we get HD coverage of the womens volleyball tournament.

 

[ic1male]

I hope we get HD coverage of the womens volleyball tournament.

Yes you will but 3D would have been better.

 

[DiCe!]

Only have freeview HD, wish I had more

 

[hanmer]

Don;t want to be petty, but apparently everything is covered. So please tell me why there is no coverage of the Archery qualifying on Friday morning?

Archery prelims are closed events for both spectators and TV coverage, which is a request from the competitors.

Brian

 

[DiCe!]

Dont understand that at all.

 

[oli356]

Well I also just watched a video on the BBC site. The event was apparently "unticketed", everyone thought that meant free and has gone to watch and well they can't get in! There was a family from America who traveled to watch it, but unticketed means no one can enter apart from the press.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19010407

 

[Si.]

are there any iPAD apps to watch it? I can get it on the BBC website, but can't get that working via my HDMI Our to the TV

 

[ic1male]

There is supposed to be a BBC Sport iOS app yes.

 

[Cosimo]

are there any iPAD apps to watch it? I can get it on the BBC website, but can't get that working via my HDMI Our to the TV

There is supposed to be a BBC Sport iOS app yes.

Yes:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18423768

 

[Cosimo]

Been watching some fencing and I’m impressed by the BBC Olympic channels on Sky.

 

[oli356]

Having quite a lot of buffering problems when watching on the BBC site =(

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Having quite a lot of buffering problems when watching on the BBC site =(

It's a complete failure as far as I'm concerned although I'm used it from the Golden League Athletics coverage which managed to make ITV Player look professional.

 

[ic1male]

Having quite a lot of buffering problems when watching on the BBC site =(

I've given up watching anything live. It's just terrible at the mo.

 

[muon]

Red Button is brilliant. Much better than trawling through 24 channels. Also it is all in HD (i.e. uses the same feeds).

 

[Vampire]

Freesat HD seems to have all the BBC HD channels, all working and looking nice.