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  • back2basics
    Free Member

    jeez the BBC’s “day at the olympics” is more like “talk to our presents for utter jibberish” at the olympics,
    the coverage of the mens double luge was PATHETIC……
    but hey lets cut away and show our presenters talking about some british hopeful placed 19th….

    seriously have the BBC actually shown a Associated Press interview yet of a gold / silver / bronze medalist that isnt BRITISH….

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    That was a huge run from Kenworthy! Deserved more….

    Still hope for the big fella from Sheffield! C’mon Woodsy!

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Your mistake is only watching the what happens to be offered on the main telly channel.

    Try hitting the red button for other sports or using the website (which is currently showing Men’s Slopestyle Skiing, Women’s Cross Country 10km, Men’s Curling and Short Track – all Live on now)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/2014

    back2basics
    Free Member

    there be no red button up here on freeview scotland.
    perhaps its in the Independance white paper that we’ll get it.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    there be no red button up here on freeview scotland.

    Really? I thought it was pretty universal as it is just some extra channels really. We manage it okay just across the border in NE Englandshire.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    The red button icon might not be there (it’s not on our telly) but it still works if you press it. Part of the DTV spec afaik.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Poor signal in 4G land here in the clouds.. 🙁

    Whats happening to Woodsy???? 8)

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Whats happening to Woodsy????

    5th, which is more than good enough given the injury he was skiing through!

    Good on him! He’ll be disappointed, certainly, but he’ll be back for more!

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Whats happening to Woodsy????

    Boy done good but not good enough to take on yooo-ess-aaay, yooo-ess-aaay, yooo-ess-aaay who absolutely dominated.

    back2basics
    Free Member

    nope no red button, we get channel 301 BBC, thats just 1 extra feed, so in total we get BBC2 coverage and 301 coverage.

    people in other regions of scotland get red button as we used to have it where we lived before, but inverness way. nope.

    grum
    Free Member

    Shame when Woodsy was being interviewed they tried to put a bit of a downer on him getting 5th, even though he was really chuffed.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Awe, still 5th in the Olys is..

    Immense!! 8)

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    “I can do triples, I have got them,” says James Woods before going on to admit he would not have been competing had it not been an Olympic final.

    “In any other occasion I would not be near my skis and boots. Potential is something that can be great or can cut you deep. I cannot be unhappy with this – it is the world stage.

    Fifth in the Olympics, with four of my best mates in front of me, it is great.”

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    “Fifth in the Olympics, with four of my best mates in front of me, it is great.”

    Well said that man. Be proud!

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    ^^ 8)

    Cool attitude Dude.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    but inverness way. nope.

    Well, you will live in a cultural backwater, you can’t blame the BBC for that. 😉

    Out of interest I just tried comparing Freeview coverage in Inverness to my house (Northumberland).

    Inverness: 6 Freeview HD, Up to 20 Freeview channels, 13 radio stations
    My house: 6 Freeview HD, Over 50 Freeview channels, 24 radio stations

    http://www.freeview.co.uk/availability

    Ah well. There is still the internet broadcasts.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Im watching second run now (12;15 french time) is it not live ? Woods yet to go

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Non.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Putain ! 😳

    French TV showed live ladies cross country skiing instead …

    Great quote from Woods there, thanks @CFH

    molgrips
    Free Member

    nope no red button, we get channel 301 BBC, thats just 1 extra feed

    Weird. Although we only get 301 and 302. Does nothing happen if you press red?

    Pigface
    Free Member

    the big beasts in the mens Ice Hockey take to the ice today.

    Finland already won Hyva Suomi 😆

    back2basics
    Free Member

    if i press red button on bbc2 it gives me 301, if i press exit it gives me bbc2

    ocrider
    Full Member

    jambalaya – Member

    Putain !

    French TV showed live ladies cross country skiing instead …

    That’s OK. It’s an excuse to fire up Filmon and watch it with better commentary in your native tongue (guess what I did?)

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    @ocrider – I was being lazy and not using the VPN to watch the BBC coverage (computer connected directly to tv)

    stevomcd
    Free Member

    FilmOn sucks. FireFox + Mediahint is where it’s at!

    grum
    Free Member

    I’ve been using Firefox and Media Hint over the last week or so with no problems at all.

    ocrider
    Full Member

    FilmOn sucks.

    It does indeed, but now I have an alternative to try out. Ta Stevomcd!

    ocrider
    Full Member

    Update:

    It seems that FilmOn still sucks less than Media Hint on an Android tablet, which doesn’t work for me at all.

    However in my desperation to find a decent alternative, I have come across Hola. Has anyone tried this out?

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    I read that as

    However in my desperation to find a decent alternative, I have come across Hora. Has anyone tried this out?

    😆

    ocrider
    Full Member

    And if I had, I wouldn’t be advertising it on here!

    shifter
    Free Member

    Relay luge – epic!

    labsey
    Free Member

    USA, Canada and Sweden dominating in the Hockey for both sexes. Don’t think much of the coverage though.

    honeybadgerx
    Full Member

    Yeep! Go on Lizzy!

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    Track record is a pretty tasty R3

    theotherjonv
    Full Member

    underway in R4. Lizzie out last, in about 20 mins time.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Woooooo!

    OUTSTANDING!

    neilthewheel
    Full Member

    Great contest!

    transmute
    Free Member

    Indeed! 😀
    Superb performance

    molgrips
    Free Member

    That was amazing. How’d she manage to start so fast?

    MSP
    Full Member

    Awsome, I have no connection to this sport, it is just so far from everything I can imagian, but I was so exited about that and loved every moment, despite bbc’s online viewing crashing for a while, must have been a lot of viewers, but was able to see the last few runs and just loved it.

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