Beijing Olympic Games Online Video Stream Guide
Bookmark this page and you can watch the Olympic Games without a TV. Especially useful for catching the events that get little to no airtime — equestrian dressage, anyone?
The first section of this page is dedicated to Chinese resources. Good for overseas Chinese who want to hear Chinese commentary on their favorite events. The second section is for non-Chinese language. Feel free to add good resources for your language/country in the comments below thus more readers can view the video online.
Part I: Chinese Language
Bejing Olympic Games Official Website：
Online Live Video Stream Sites
- CCTV: http://2008.cctv.com/05/index.shtml
- Sohu 搜狐：http://info.2008.sohu.com/Live/
- Tencent 腾讯：http://2008.qq.com/live/
- Netease 网易：http://v.2008.163.com/
- Sina 新浪： http://2008.sina.com.cn/video/
Video Stream Application/Software (P2P) Live: (need to download and install software; may not be compatible with all browsers and operating systems)
- UUSEE 优视 网络电视下载:http://nj.newhua.com/soft/44708.htm
- 风行网络电影:http://nj.newhua.com/soft/898.htm
- PPS网络电视: http://www.ppstream.com/download.html
- PPLive网络电视:http://www.skycn.com/soft/24106.html
- QQ视频播放器：http://tv.qq.com/download.htm
Olympic Games Schedules：
Thank Hanger08 for above list.
Part II Non-Chinese Language
Bejing Olympic Games Official Website
- http://en.beijing2008.cn/video/ (English)
Online Live Video Stream Sites:
- NBC: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html (English, 2,200 hrs, up from 100 hrs in 2004, RWW reported.) Just enter zipcode and install Microsoft Silverlight plug-in. （US only)
- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/beijing2008 (Available in more than 70 countries where exclusive rights have not been sold like India, South Korea, Iraq. See cNet report here.) How to get around Youtube regional filtering
- Eurosport: http://eurosport.yahoo.com/ (multiple languages, only available to certain regions outside of the US) Also has streaming audio coverage
- Eurovision: http://www.eurovision.net/ops/olympics.php (certain European Broadcasting Union (EBU) territories only)
- CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/livevideo (Canada only)
- BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm (UK only)
- TerraTV: http://www.ar.terra.com/shared/pekin2008/ (based out of Argentina - Spanish - certain regions only)
More options are listed at the Wired How to Wiki:
- Watch Olympics. syndication of user generated feeds
- TV Tonic: download service similar to iTunes. But 32-bit Windows Vista compatible only
- Yahoo7: Australia official Olympics online portal including live streams
- Cox High Speed Internet: Cox customers can access the NBCOlympics content via a Cox portal
11 Responses to “Beijing Olympic Games Online Video Stream Guide”
Live streaming video coverage of today’s stage Beijing Olympic Video scheduled to begin at 16:00 CET 10am U.S. Eastern
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techbirmingham/2745489808/ shows the Beijing2008 homepage from YouTube
I wish NBC would have streamed worldwide…
for the brazilian people, I find out that:
http://terratv.terra.com.br/olimpiadas/templates/ol_schedule.aspx
Muito Bom!!!
Great list of sites, it looks like the olympics are already leaking into the torrents:
http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=olympic
Here is another list of places to browse olympic related infromation
Best ways to watch the Beijing Olympics from your home
I would like to watch and enjoy olymics games here.
okay
12 Live channels covering Olimpic Games
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/
Now you can watch Michael Phelps’s winning lap at the Olympics, anywhere, anytime, on your mobile phone. Skyfire, the free internet browser for mobile phones, streams you videos of Olympics coverage provided by NBC (and also on Youtube, Break.com, etc.) For a limited time only, Skyfire is available- at the beta code, type: “Michael8”. Catch The Games on your mobile for free at http://www.skyfire.com/sign-up
The Beijing Olympics was indeed an unprecedented success. From the magnificent opening ceremony to the venues and facilities, from event organisation to back-end logistics, neither athletes nor journalists found reason to complain. Even the air quality in China’s capital - cause of more concern than any other single factor - was, thankfully, up to standard. The attentiveness and enthusiasm of the volunteers stationed throughout the venues and streets were applauded by both athletes and tourists.
Overall, the Olympics have been part of a desensitisation process for the Chinese government. Faced with new events and unfamiliar scenes, a certain amount of nervousness - even panic - is understandable. This was China’s first Olympics, with over 10,000 athletes from 200 different countries, over eighty heads of state, 30,000 reporters and tens of thousands of foreign tourists in attendance. China did not know what would happen, but was convinced that something would; as one senior official put it in a speech: “It is impossible that nothing will go wrong.
It was a splendid show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!