http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/ Sat, 26 May 2012 12:38:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481064 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:37:16 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481064 [...] the piece titled “NBC Celebrates Olympics Results, Others Beg to Differ“, The network restricted access to its online live coverage to paying cable, satellite or IPTV customers this time around, and [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481063 Mon, 03 May 2010 21:01:20 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481063 [...] timing of this isn’t entirely accidental. NBC’s decision to lock down its online coverage of the Winter Olympics behind a pay TV wall seems to have prompted many users [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481062 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:32:15 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481062 [...] to all those willing to sit through a word from its sponsors, as opposed to NBC’s choice to require proof of a cable subscription to watch the Olympics online. I may not be a huge basketball fan. But I am a fan of [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481061 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:22 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481061 [...] no, you won’t have to jump through any annoying registration hoops like with the Olympics. In fact, there are so many options to to join in on the fun that we decided to compile a handy [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481060 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:09:48 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481060 [...] NBC’s Olympics coverage, CBS is committed to making the NCAA tournament live, open, and available to anyone who wants to [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481059 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:43 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481059 [...] marquee events, using tape delays to aggregate larger audiences during primetime hours. And it has restricted access online to only those fans who prove that they are paying cable [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481058 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:27:36 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481058 [...] while figure skating and hockey games are on TV. Even current cable customers able to jump through the authentication hoops of NBC’s Olympics may be looking for alternatives. After all, NBC is only streaming some 400 [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481057 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:18:34 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481057 I have Comcast cable and internet, and I still can’t see the premium content. Their authentication software doesn’t work. I go through their one-time sign up screens and login to my account, but it just says that I’m not a subscriber.

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481056 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:04:04 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481056 I am a Mediacom cable subscriber. Turns out that isn’t enough to see the nbcolympics “special” videos. With Mediacom, you also have to be a broadband internet subscriber. Gee, what a racket!

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/get-ready-for-some-olympic-sized-authentication-frustration/#comment-481055 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:01:27 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=41887#comment-481055 [...] I finally found a “Watch Now” link on the Curling home page around 9:05 AM — whereupon I was then asked to go through NBC’s cable verification process. [...]

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