Which country will come out on top in the Canada vs. USA hockey game?

[mgb_phys]

The Americans are going to throw the game and then invade on monday while everyone is still hungover.
With Canada's main line of defence (drunk hockey fans) out of action - they will have seized Alberta's oil fields by breakfast time.

 

[turbo]

www.ctvolympics.ca has live feeds, they are normally a few seconds behind... up to a full minute actually. I'm not sure if they work outside of Canada however.

I can't get any of the CTV feeds to load. Probably thanks to NBC. Thanks for the heads-up though.

 

[russ_watters]

USA wins the 4 man bobsled!

...slightly annoying that they don't show it live, even on the website.

 

[GeorginaS]

That truly sucks that you guys aren't getting live coverage of events. We can't get away from it.

 

[lisab]

The Americans are going to throw the game and then invade on monday while everyone is still hungover.
With Canada's main line of defence (drunk hockey fans) out of action - they will have seized Alberta's oil fields by breakfast time.

Dang it mgb...ssssshhh!

 

[turbo]

That truly sucks that you guys aren't getting live coverage of events. We can't get away from it.

Thanks to MicroSoft's unholy alliance with NBC we are pretty much stymied. The CTV feeds are all using MicroSoft's video app, and the feeds do not load in Chrome or IE. You get error messages saying that you should wait for the "temporary" glitch to be fixed while it "reloads" the feed. Sure. As long as MS is tied at the hip to NBC, residents of the US will not be able to receive live CTV feeds. NBC claims that it will lose money airing perhaps the most popular Winter Olympics ever, and the rest of the media plays along while NBC and MS denies Americans live coverage.

 

[Borek]

Just finished watching curling final (live)

Time to bed, 2:40 am.

I wonder how we will chat during hockey final.

 

[GeorginaS]

Thanks to MicroSoft's unholy alliance with NBC we are pretty much stymied. The CTV feeds are all using MicroSoft's video app, and the feeds do not load in Chrome or IE. You get error messages saying that you should wait for the "temporary" glitch to be fixed while it "reloads" the feed. Sure. As long as MS is tied at the hip to NBC, residents of the US will not be able to receive live CTV feeds. NBC claims that it will lose money airing perhaps the most popular Winter Olympics ever, and the rest of the media plays along while NBC and MS denies Americans live coverage.

Same happens coming this way too. If I recall correctly, MSNBC video feeds -- particularly coming off of the MSN homepage -- are blocked. Same with Comedy Central, although there is a site for the Comedy Channel for Canadians, so we get access to all the same stuff. But I have to say, I find it rather off-putting when I encounter sites that selectively block access by country IP addresses. I've only run into it so far, actually, with US sites. It's really annoying and definitely coloured my opinion of a musician I like a whole bunch. Her site is restricted to people in the US so, I figure, she doesn't want my business, then.

Anyway, yeah, jeez, turbo. No fair. I wonder what's driving the popularity of the winter games this time? Generally they don't get a whole bunch of attention. Well, I know that a lot of Canadians pay attention to the winter games, and I know why we're especially paying attention this year, but still. There seems to be quite a bit of interest from other places too. Which is really nice. The winter games are a lot of fun to watch.

 

[GeorginaS]

Just finished watching curling final (live)

Time to bed, 2:40 am.

I wonder how we will chat during hockey final.

You're a trooper, Borek.

 

[zomgwtf]

I like watching the winter games a lot more than I like watching the summer games. In the summer games there are wayyyy too many events and medals being awarded. I mean like America has 37 winter olympic medals this time around and that broke the previous record of 36... in the summer olympics that' the amount of gold medals they get... All I really ever get out of watching the olympics is whoever wins the most amount of medals or is smashing world records... there are a few events that I do enjoy watching but for the most part I pay no attention to them.

 

[turbo]

I wonder how we will chat during hockey final.

Probably without me. NBC sucks!

 

[turbo]

I have spent the last hour logging on to proxy servers in order to try to get access to CTV feeds, to no avail. The MS streaming app claims that I don't have the latest version of Flash installed (I do) then redirects you to a link to get the newest app, which doesn't work. I hope Bill Gates is really pleased with himself as he pockets NBC's pay-offs.

 

[GeorginaS]

I'm trying to see if I can find an online feed for the CBC, turbo. They're carrying the Olympics live too.

Sorry, I can't find any live stream on their site. The lack of online availability is interesting. This looks like a precursor to other stuff. Apparently there are sites you can pay for, which, I guess people found another way to make money online.

 

[turbo]

I'm trying to see if I can find an online feed for the CBC, turbo. They're carrying the Olympics live too.

Thanks, GS! I would really love to see that game live. Canada and the US both have strong teams, and I think the game will be a killer.

 

[rootX]

I have spent the last hour logging on to proxy servers in order to try to get access to CTV feeds, to no avail. The MS streaming app claims that I don't have the latest version of Flash installed (I do) then redirects you to a link to get the newest app, which doesn't work. I hope Bill Gates is really pleased with himself as he pockets NBC's pay-offs.

Are you using firefox?

I usually use IE for things like that.

I had to download Silverlight for watching online (I used IE)

 

[MotoH]

There is a "blockade" on all US IP addresses which makes it impossible for us to watch live events over the internet, thanks to NBC.

 

[turbo]

Are you using firefox?

I usually use IE for things like that.

I had to download Silverlight for watching online (I used IE)

I have Chrome, FF, and IE. MS has managed to block all streaming Olympic feed to the US. Damn them and NBC too.

 

[rootX]

There is a "blockade" on all US IP addresses which makes it impossible for us to watch live events over the internet, thanks to NBC.

It happened to me too :(

Dear Pandora Visitor,

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.


...

http://www.pandora.com/restricted

 

[zomgwtf]

I have Chrome, FF, and IE. MS has managed to block all streaming Olympic feed to the US. Damn them and NBC too.

turbo, there are plenty of sites that stream olympic coverage live, however they get taken down from time to time and you have to move on to the next stream.

if you go to www.vancouver2010.com and go to the event while it is live you can just ask in the facebook chat for a stream link for someone in the USA and people should send you the links.

It'll be a pain in the but though :P

 

[MATLABdude]

Is NBC not carrying the hockey finals this afternoon (1215 PST)?! Maybe hockey really is a niche sport outside of Canada... On that note, I'd heard that 65% of Canadian households tuned in last week to Canada vs. US round 1. I suspect there would be nation-wide rioting if CTV weren't broadcasting the game. Or tried putting it on PayPerView.

 

[Borek]

Vote Pirate Party.

 

[Vasara]

We got the bronze medal, beating Slovakia 5-3. Fantastic performance by team Finland after that frankly embarrassing USA game.

 

[russ_watters]

Is NBC not carrying the hockey finals this afternoon (1215 PST)?!

The hockey finals will be live. What is live and what isn't is at the whim of the network. The bobsled final run was during the dinner hour and they weren't going to show it on MSNBC while most of their audience was watching local news on the local NBC afiliate. Plus, they needed something good to show last night in prime time.

Today, they have prime time filled with the closing ceremonies and the hockey is in the afternoon, so no need to delay it.

 

[GeorginaS]

I suspect there would be nation-wide rioting if CTV weren't broadcasting the game. Or tried putting it on PayPerView.

You know what? I wouldn't even call that an overstatement.

 

[D H]

OMG!

The trick of pulling the keeper hardly ever works.

 

[NeoDevin]

Take that!

 

[D H]

Yeah. Good game.

 

[Borek]

Definitely good one.

 

[D H]

Tomorrow is going to be a tough one at work. The little company for which I work has a good sized northern contingent: a North Dakotan, two Minnesotans, and a Canadian as employees. Oh yeah, and two Canadian owners. I'm one of the close-to-Canadians.

 

[KrisOhn]

Wooot! Definitely a good game! Quite proud to be Canadian right now :D

And thanks to the US team for giving us such a run for our money, it was fun :D