olympics - Geoblocking

[dickytim]

Hi All,

I need some information.

firstly, which brittish TV broadcaster is showing the Olympics ?

Secondly, who knows how to beat GEOblocking software so I can actually stream the Equestrian, which is not being broadcast in NZ ?

I am soooo desperate to watch the dressage and show jumping...


HELP

[TAR]

try bbc.co.uk they will be be covering the Olympics as will the BBC terrestrial tv channel.:happy:

[dickytim]

unfortunately all the countries are forced by the EOC to enforce geoblocking measures to make sure some one from another country can't watch their coverage :(

[Nutter_John]

go via a proxy server thats is based in the UK or the US

[martin_y]

BBC????????

Last Olympics they showed athletics athletics athletics, Paula this, Paula that, and many events where there werent even any British participants.

Meanwhile our sailors were creaming the medals, but you could not find any sailing on BBC, and very megre sailing information on their website.


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[g8legnum]

BBC????????

Last Olympics they showed athletics athletics athletics, Paula this, Paula that, and many events where there werent even any British participants.

Meanwhile our sailors were creaming the medals, but you could not find any sailing on BBC, and very megre sailing information on their website.


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:-( And we have to pay to send 740 of their employees out there on a jolly. I'm sick of the Olympics already and it hasn't even started /Grrr /Grrr

[PaddyB]

Have you tried any sopcast or p2p streaming sites ?? Had a quick look & can't find any equestrian stuff, just lots of "Beijing Olympic Games 2008" - no more details as to content.

[Robotnik123]

Wouldn't TVNZ be streaming equestrian, I think there's a good chance they will.

Anyway, you need to go thru a proxy server like they say. Try googling anonymous proxy. Once you find the address, and port for one based in the UK, in Mozilla go to tools > options; select network tab and click on the 'Settings' button and select the manual proxy configuration radio button and type the name and port of the anonymous proxy in the HTTP proxy field. The only problem is probably this set-up will be OK for websurfing, but could be too slow for streaming vid.

[Nutter_John]

146.220.250.22:3128 anonymous proxy server Luxembourg
121.100.50.7:80 anonymous proxy server Afghanistan
160.97.36.70:8000 anonymous proxy server Italy
85.25.140.160:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
61.196.212.101:8080 anonymous proxy server Japan
121.100.50.7:8080 anonymous proxy server Afghanistan
62.80.36.82:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
87.234.234.66:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
195.127.14.154:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
203.187.180.169:80 anonymous proxy server China
141.211.184.99:80 anonymous proxy server United States
90.157.115.140:8080 anonymous proxy server Russian Federation
78.93.4.131:8080 anonymous proxy server Saudi Arabia
72.55.160.183:80 anonymous proxy server Canada
210.19.71.60:3128 anonymous proxy server Malaysia
80.238.136.213:80 anonymous proxy server Switzerland

[Robotnik123]

146.220.250.22:3128 anonymous proxy server Luxembourg
121.100.50.7:80 anonymous proxy server Afghanistan
160.97.36.70:8000 anonymous proxy server Italy
85.25.140.160:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
61.196.212.101:8080 anonymous proxy server Japan
121.100.50.7:8080 anonymous proxy server Afghanistan
62.80.36.82:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
87.234.234.66:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
195.127.14.154:80 anonymous proxy server Germany
203.187.180.169:80 anonymous proxy server China
141.211.184.99:80 anonymous proxy server United States
90.157.115.140:8080 anonymous proxy server Russian Federation
78.93.4.131:8080 anonymous proxy server Saudi Arabia
72.55.160.183:80 anonymous proxy server Canada
210.19.71.60:3128 anonymous proxy server Malaysia
80.238.136.213:80 anonymous proxy server Switzerland

None of those are in the UK though. Wouldn't the Beeb block all non-UK addresses?:inquisiti

[martin_y]

mmm BBC have done better this time. There's actually quite a lot of sailing on freeview next week.

Luckily I am Working from home ! :-)

[Joanne]

BBC Freeview 3 and Satellite/cable 4 at 11:15pm -2:45am (UK time) for the opening day of the equestrian team and individual dressage. Don't know how you can get it though, but hope that helps :)

[flib1]

Does anyone know if the archery will be televised? and if so will it be on the iplayer?
thanks very much

[martin_y]

try here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/shared/bsp/hi/olympics2008/epg/html/epg.stm

[psbarham]

Does anyone know if the archery will be televised? and if so will it be on the iplayer?
thanks very much

do you shoot then?

[martin_y]

ey, the sailors are doing all right so far.

Sadly, todays was on cable :-(

though there are sailing highlights at 5 pm.

[Davezj]

last time the Olympic coverage was very good if you had digital TV.

You just pressed the red buttom and had a choice of about 10 different things to watch at any given time.

Presume it is the same this year, not actually watched any of it yet.

[flib1]

do you shoot then?

yup, although i'm really a field archer i'd like to finally be able to watch a sport i'm actually interested in on TV :afro: Usually I have to try and find it on youtube.
I don't have an TV ariel at the moment so I can't watch it on TV so i've got to watch it on the internet. I think it was on this morning but i've been at work all day (teaching archery!). Had a look on iPlayer and they seem to have every sport available apart from archery :inquisiti

[psbarham]

yup, although i'm really a field archer i'd like to finally be able to watch a sport i'm actually interested in on TV :afro: Usually I have to try and find it on youtube.
I don't have an TV ariel at the moment so I can't watch it on TV so i've got to watch it on the internet. I think it was on this morning but i've been at work all day (teaching archery!). Had a look on iPlayer and they seem to have every sport available apart from archery :inquisiti

i used to shoot a lot when i was younger, but girls drink motorbikes and cars got in the way. the rest of my family still shoot and my dad and sister are GNAS national judges with a good chance of judging the olympics in london

[dickytim]

Gotto love the Dutch, we found an unprotected streaming website, I am hoping they will have better coverage of the Dressage etc. :)

[martin_y]

Any chance of the url? Not all the sailing is on freeview :-(

[flib1]

i used to shoot a lot when i was younger, but girls drink motorbikes and cars got in the way. the rest of my family still shoot and my dad and sister are GNAS national judges with a good chance of judging the olympics in london

well Simon Terry went into bike racing then came back to archery, if you get practicing now you'd be ready for 2012, we need all the help we can get :happy:

[Nevman]

What is Geoblocking?
I have Polish sat and we have live Olympics coverage on Eurosport HD (and SD) in both Polish and English languages plus a few Polish only channels in both HD and SD with no problem whatsoever.

[martin_y]

I think it means that if you try and watch online, you can be blocked because of your country. This can be determined by your address on the internet

Your "IP" address (Internet Protocol)

Edit - I should have said "Geoblocking" probably means "blocking by Geography"

[dickytim]

http://www.aelling.lir.dk/public/

link

[Nevman]

So it's the online only?
Whay can't you get sat then?
No SAT Olympics transmission in Kiwi's country?