The Olympics
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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Aug 8, 2008
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22 Comments, add your own...
1. jessyz | August 8th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I missed it too, can’t find a whole version to watch, did you find anything?
2. Shoxin | August 8th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
It was great @_@
3. Mark | August 8th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
no not yet, still looking and waiting
4. ar53nal14 | August 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
It was really good! You don’t have a dish?!
5. makkkkk | August 8th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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
6. Pure | August 8th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
check this website maybe it’ll help : )
http://www.nbcolympics.com/
7. Mark | August 8th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
pure already tried it, wont work cuz i am not in the US
8. Pure | August 8th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
oh i see .. : /
9. Piyush | August 8th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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.
10. skyline | August 8th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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 !
11. Shoxin | August 9th, 2008 at 12:45 am
In case you’re interested there’s a re-run atm in Jazeera, though they’ve reached the globe part right now.
12. Shoxin | August 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Jazeera Mubashar*
Sorry about that, should have checked the name properly.
13. uturn | August 9th, 2008 at 1:59 am
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!!
14. Stafa | August 9th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Mark stop being cheap and install a dish LOL
15. acube | August 9th, 2008 at 4:55 am
watching it right now in the states! it’s on tv again!
16. TanGo | August 9th, 2008 at 6:29 am
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’
17. Pure | August 9th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Mark check this ; )
http://www.youtube.com/beijing2008
18. Komsomol | August 9th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
The Opening Ceremonies is up on Torrents at 2 gigs.
Downloading them now.
19. liluokalani | August 9th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
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!
20. lfc-q8 | August 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
its out on torrent
21. lensman | August 10th, 2008 at 8:53 am
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!
22. Alawi | August 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
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 :)
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