The Beijing Olympic Games 2008 are going to start in less than 2 days time and this biggest spots event is going to subject online video streaming technologies to a rigours testing.
Live steaming of videos starting from the opening ceremony to closing ceremony are going to be available live to Internet users of US, UK, Australia, China & Canada and in other 77 countries users can watch highlights.
Live broadcast of 2008 China Olympics websites accessible for UK, US, Australia, China and Canada Internet users
- USA – http://www.nbcolympics.com/ (NBC)
- United Kingdom – http://bbc.co.uk/olympics (BBC)
- Australia – http://au.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/video/ ( Yahoo 7) and http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/ (ABC)
- Canada – http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/ (CBC)
- China – http://www.cctvolympics.com ( CC TV)
In other 77 countries including India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Nigeria, etc viewers can watch highlights YouTube. Couple of days ago Google started a new YouTube channel Beijing Olympics 2008 to broadcast highlights of the Olympic games in the countries where online broadcasters haven’t bought exclusive rights.
YouTube Channel to view highlights – Beijing Olympics 2008
China is going to unleash the Olympics with a grand spectacular opening ceremony on 8th August. So don’t miss to see it live.
Local Time of Beijing Opening Ceremony in few countries
Washington D.C., USA 08:00am Friday (EDT)
Ottawa, Canada 08:00am Friday (EDT)
United Kingdom 01:00pm Friday (BST)
China 08:00pm Friday (CST)
India 05:30pm Friday (IST)
Canberra, Australia 10:00pm Friday (EST)
Time in Japan 09:00pm Friday (JST)
Republic of Korea 09:00pm Friday (KST)
France 02:00pm Friday (CEST)
Germany 02:00pm Friday (CEST)
Great, just great. The CBC, in it’s infinite wisdom, isn’t streaming the finals for the women’s -67kg and men’s -80kg Taekwondo competition. The one where we have two competitors (one of who is a favourite for gold) in the quarter-finals. Thanks, CBC!
All of the live broadcasts are disabled for our territory, ie. USA! BBC, Australia, Yahoo, etc … No joke.
I feel like I’m in a communist state. F*** NBC and those corporate media pigs. Just turn the TV off!
@Cole,
I dont think that there are any legal online streams for Spain viewers. You can watch highlights on YouTube Official Olympics Channel
http://www.youtube.com/beijing2008
Is there any streaming for the olympics in Spain?
@Andrew,
Yahoo provides only 100 hours of footage from Beijing, including the special live stream each day at a dedicated time and featuring some of the most popular Olympic sports.
For complete schedule of live broadcast on Yahoo 7 please check this Yahoo News Article
http://au.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/4864020/yahoo7-offer-daily-live-streams-olympic-coverage
Hi,
You mentioned that Yahoo7 broadcast live streaming. But apparently, I dont seem to be able to find any live broadcasting on the website. Perhaps, you could direct me to it?
Thanks
Andrew
Dear,
I would like to watch live on internet the olympic games, my IP adress is from Finnland. Could youplease recomment a good site?
thanks a lot.
Albert Mathe
i want see 2008 olympic starting cermony in china
@Max,
The links provided in the article points to live online streams.
Hi there,
Is there online broadcast avilable to view online ???
OMG thank you so much for this. I highly appreciate.