I don’t know if you guys have checked, but after the US team reviewed the NBC Olympics web player, I headed over to Yahoo!7 to see what was on offer locally. There’s good news for people who just can’t get enough of Mel and Kochy and the rest of the Channel 7 Olympic News Team, but bad news for anyone hoping for an immersive online video experience. Sure there’s video there, but sorting through what you want isn’t exactly what I’d describe as fun.
But now there’s a bit of hope for some diversity, with Valleywag detailing how you can hack your way into YouTube’s Olympic channel. As we discovered last week, the channel is geo-locked, but with this little hack, anyone can start watching.
Hit the link for the full instructions and fill the comments with comparisons between the YouTube effort and Yahoo!7′s attempts. Which is better?
poedgirl
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 11:34 AMThis doesn’t work any more. You can get to the Beijing2008 portal page, but no videos load – they all say the video is no longer available and when you try to load one from a link it says it is not available in your region.
Ted
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 11:41 AMOk the instructions allowed me to get to the page, but none of the videos will load. It appears YouTube have geolocked all of the content individually :(
It’s such a shame too, because the YouTube layout rocks! It is far more intuitive than Yahoo7.
Wilson Chen
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 11:51 AMI have tried it and doesn’t work anymore. Comments from the page also confirms it.
Jared Wiltshire
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 12:25 PMThis doesn’t work anymore, it gets you access to the channel but all the videos dont load. If you click one it says “This video is not available in your country”.
Wayne
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 12:28 PMDoesn’t seem to work anymore. Shame. Comments on the linked website seem to be along the same line.
ribbo
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 2:26 PMno longer working
Matt
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 4:15 PMWill anchor free’s hotspot shield vpn program work, much like it does for hulu? I tried but the program doesnt seem to work on vista 64.
nozlaf
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 10:02 PMThe Yahoo7 Coverage is terrible, if you can’t make the video full screen what is the point????
Web Laureate
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 5:31 AMi just use a proxy to access this page. have been using it since the olympics started ’cause nbcolympics sux. i just can’t get enough of these olympics – SO EXCITING. read about all my experience to get more online here: http://webpoet.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/not-enough/