[jressey]

I love to talk shit on huge broadcasters but using their app for the olympics has been amazing. I just watched 2 days of replays from their app, all with minimal or no commentary, and all with few commercials (like 1/30 minutes).

Not only do you get replays for literally every event, but they don't even spoil them with the final scores or results.

Edit: It looks like I failed to mention that cable is required so that's a huge caveat. Also some folks seem to get more commercials than I have.

[TheTon]

On the iPad app, I definitely got spoilers. I wanted to watch men’s cycling, but it finished in the middle of my night so I went to watch it in the morning. As soon as I open the app there is a big tile on the first screen spoiling the result. Then the next day, same thing happens with a basketball game I wanted to see (USA vs France).

[tshaddox]

I agree, except for the “few commercials” part. That seems highly dependent on the event. For events with regular short gaps between action, they seem to show a ton of ads.

[asciimov]

On one of the replays I watched it was a one minute commercial every 4 minutes. They paused the feed, played the commercial, and resumed the feed.

[lake_vincent]

Agreed - just log into app via cable provider and voila, Olympic paradise.

[tedajax]

And if you don't have cable?

[nrjames]

This is the problem I'm experiencing. The best I've found is fuboTV and it's not great. I don't have cable in my house. I'd be willing to pay NBC $100 for access to all of their live and on-demand olympic coverage (what's available through the website, etc.), but that's not even an option.

[rewtraw]

I ended up adding the 'Live TV' option to my existing Hulu subscription, and now have access to all the replays as well as the primetime coverage. It's working very well. It's ~$65/mo extra, so I'll just cancel that add-on after the games end.

I'd prefer to have native internet streaming coverage. IIRC the 2016 or '18 games had fantastic free coverage on streaming boxes, with a nice app that had an easy way to watch live for any sport. not sure why we are regressing so badly. Probably money.

[dtparr]

Can you not login to the nbc olympics site/app using your fuboTV login and get access to exactly what you're looking for? [0]

They also list youtube TV and Sling TV as login options.

[0] - Literally asking, as I can see they're available as sign-in TV Providers, but can't test it without a sub.

[nrjames]

It appears to specifically be "Sign in with your Cable Provider." They list the providers and fuboTV is not one of them.

EDIT: I was wrong! I used "search all providers" and indeed, fuboTV was listed there, so I signed in with the credentials and it seems to work. Thanks for the nudge!

[dtparr]

Glad it worked out!

[Spare_account]

VPN to the UK and watch BBC coverage?

I'll admit that I don't know if that works or not, I'm in the UK so I'm spoiled by wall-to-wall BBC coverage.

[asciimov]

Those that I trust say that most of the content providers have gotten good at blocking known vpn hosts.

[ViViDboarder]

I use my antenna and use Plex as a DVR.

[spookthesunset]

Is it 4K or at least higher framerate?