I didn’t get a chance to watch the Olympics opening ceremony but after seeing these pictures on Gizmodo I think I need to. From the pictures it looks like the opening ceremony was pretty cool so I am going to try and download the opening now. I need to get live TV at my place, I don’t even have a satellite dish… [Link]
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Mark and Nat, a married couple who are living in Kuwait. Mark is a creative director at an ad agency while Nat runs her own design studio called Push+Pull.
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I missed it too, can’t find a whole version to watch, did you find anything?
It was great @_@
no not yet, still looking and waiting
It was really good! You don’t have a dish?!
it was insane.. gave me goosebumps. the chinese are really brilliant and the opening ceremony was mesmerising. you could tell they put months and months of hard work into it all. i really hope you get to see it
check this website maybe it’ll help : )
http://www.nbcolympics.com/
pure already tried it, wont work cuz i am not in the US
oh i see .. : /
The opening ceremony was amazing !!
Mark, try this website
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Watch_the_Olympics_Online#Getting_Around_Location_Restrictions
It might help.
I was watching the broadcast on DD India, its run by Indian government, but they paused the broadcast for the local news !! I was soo pissed off by that. I saw the rest of it on KTV3.
Damn! It has got to be one of the, if not the coolest Olympic opening ceremonies ever.
The ceremony was outstanding, i can’t help but stayed watching the brilliant Chinese shows motionless.
I am absolutely impressed, Obviously it was work of months if not years !
In case you’re interested there’s a re-run atm in Jazeera, though they’ve reached the globe part right now.
Jazeera Mubashar*
Sorry about that, should have checked the name properly.
Anyone noticed how the flame tower appeared out of no where? I thought I had missed it before or it was kept in dark, but those photos at gizmodo show no flame tower!!
Mark stop being cheap and install a dish LOL
watching it right now in the states! it’s on tv again!
I can drop you a VHS copy @ your office,
Its not HDTV but from ordinary satellite broadcast (Jazeera Sports),,
4 hours long with some ‘not_very_brilliant commentators’
Mark check this ; )
http://www.youtube.com/beijing2008
The Opening Ceremonies is up on Torrents at 2 gigs.
Downloading them now.
It was AWESOME! The olympic committee spent $1 billion on the ceremony I think and they spent 10 months in training to perfect what they did. AND the FIREWORKS! DAMN! There is nothing to describe it but WOW!
its out on torrent
I’d seen bits and pieces of the opening ceremony at a friends place. What I found really amazing was that the light show on the ground of the stadium could have been done using a computer to control the sequence, but instead it was done manually by 100′s of men tapping switches at different intervals. That was just amazing, the coordination between 100′s of operators doing different rythms on the lights at the same time to give the desired effect. WOW!
i was at athens airport..we decided to have a lond transit to that we could watch… we were 20 mins late…. but it was nice and we left after we cheered for the kuwait team when they came out… they were all clapping with us :)