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#1 2010-02-12 15:33:51
- bobland
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Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
First, I loaded Mono in FF 3.6. Went to nbcolympics.com. Kept getting the "Load Siverlight" message. Booted VirtualBox. Tried FF first. Then tried it with 3 different IE UserAgents. Still nothing. Tried IE. Loaded Silverlight. Still wants me to load Silverlight.
I remember the nightmare I had to go through to watch the past Summer Olympics. Fortunately, a bunch over at Ubuntu Forums figured out some scripts to get it all working. Don't know what it is about MS that they are so paranoid about Linux.
Anyone have any clues about how to watch the videos on nbcolympics.com? I'd really rather not have a dedicated disc for MS.
Thanks,
Burt
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#2 2010-02-12 17:26:54
- thestinger
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
I'd really rather not have a dedicated disc for MS.
virtual machines are your friend for things like this (my nightmare is the "windows media player plugin missing")
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#3 2010-02-12 19:28:56
- bobland
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
Not only will it not work with XP in VirtualBox, it won't even work with straight up XP. I'm thinking NBC does not want people to use the web at all. This is the kind of dumb thing that drives people away from network TV (or all TV for that matter).
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#4 2010-02-12 20:22:28
- jwwolf
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
Download them afterwards?
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#5 2010-02-12 20:56:18
- rusty99
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
Not only will it not work with XP in VirtualBox, it won't even work with straight up XP. I'm thinking NBC does not want people to use the web at all. This is the kind of dumb thing that drives people away from network TV (or all TV for that matter).
Bizarrely enough http://techdirt.com/articles/20100208/1906288092.shtml 
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#6 2010-02-12 22:18:58
- bobland
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
rusty,
Thanks for that link. At least I know I'm not being a total boob.
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#7 2010-02-12 22:52:04
- SoothingHorror
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
NBC is general makes some very bone headed moves. Don't look for this to change if the Comcast purchase of NBC is approved.
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#8 2010-02-13 01:40:11
- tesjo
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
Well it is working for me in an XP virtual box, but in Arch this bug is for moonlight and it was closed but no new package is available.
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#9 2010-02-13 04:38:18
- thisllub
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
It is kind of boring anyway.
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#10 2010-02-17 22:31:17
- doorknob60
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Re: Winter Olympics on NBC - Can't Watch!
Hey look, works perfectly for me. Nothing interesting on right now though (curling lol 
). All I had to do is type in my ISP (BendBroadband) email address and it let me in, should be similar for other ISPs/TV providers (I think it's based on TV provider not ISP, but BendBroadband is both for me). You need the Moonlight 3.0 preview version too, easy to find it.
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