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I live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if you have a TV, radio, or internet, you need to pay that. It doesn't matter if you don't have an antenna or cable and only use your TV for watching DVDs. TV=pay tax. This tax finances in part the official broadcaster from Germany.
Now comes the fun: with this broadcasting rights, every country tied to a specific sender. I couldn't watch NBC or youtube transmission, they always told me "contact your local broadcaster". My favorite one was NBC asking me to install Silverlight before telling me that I couldn't watch it. I could scream loud.
The thing is that my local broadcaster didn't have any video streaming. I pay 26 dollar/month for just the same written news that I get via any on-line newspaper.
I first started looking for private streaming sites, but these got closed by the authorities fairly quickly. Proxies did work some times but really bad for video, if at all.
In the end I've said "forget it". I got so sick about this Olympics, you have 50 sports, more than your eyes can watch at a time and usually showing those disciplines that no one cares about, like weight lifting. I gave them the finger, got my bicycle, and went for a 5-hour ride. It was much more fun.
In the end, technology overloaded my patience. - Posted by: patibulo Posted on: 08/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
RE: How the world watched the Olympics online
{Maz} | 08/27/08
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I got sick of it
patibulo | 08/27/08
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RE: How the world watched the Olympics online
Lost Target | 08/27/08
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If NBC had allowed
LBiege | 08/27/08
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Thumbs Up for Silverlight
HENpp | 08/27/08
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Two Words
andycher | 08/27/08
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Canada's CBC also used Flash video for the Olympics
Matt_Fabb@... | 08/27/08
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