You can watch all 260-plus hours live for free if you have an antenna.
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Put PS Vue and SlingTV together and you’re covered for the whole Olympics sans money.
This July 2016 image provided by Comcast Corp. shows a X1 Olympics demo captured in Philadelphia.
First, we’ll start with the easy stuff.
The catch is you need a PlayStation, Amazon Fire TV or Roku device to sign up, after which you can watch on iPhones, iPads and other devices, too.
If your country isn’t listed above, check this handy resource to see what channels the Olympics will be on.
The NBC broadcast network itself is part of the basic Sling Blue package, but is available only in the Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Hartford, Conn., Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington markets.
If you get NBC through your cable subscription, you’ll also have access to all of NBC’s streaming content via the NBC Sports app and NBCOlympics.com. Don’t air what should be a global cultural event live. If you can’t get cable, perhaps a family member …
And if you have a 4K TV, you’re in luck-NBC plans to broadcast over 80 hours of coverage in glorious 4K UHD. It will be his 11th time as NBC’s prime-time host. In Canada, CBC will stream the games on its app and website.
The games will be broadcast on NBCUniversal channels with an unprecedented 6,755 hours of coverage on all sports.
Reuters reported that NBC, the network broadcasting the game in America, chose to air coverage of the ceremony on a delay to put it in context for viewers. For a streaming package that covers all of the above and more, Sling TV is asking $40 a month-which is about what a cable TV bundle costs.
Sling TV offers a seven-day free trial (with credit card information) for new accounts. Adding the $5 “Sports Extra” package offers access to an additional 130 hours of golf coverage on The Golf Channel. Sling TV is available on most major devices (here’s the full list). YouTube also has an Olympics channel that’s probably worth a subscribe.
Vue acts more like a cable service by giving you sign-in privileges for video and VR.
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Defending Olympic men’s tennis champion Andy Murray will be Great Britain’s flag bearer as an estimated three billion people will watch the ceremony, which has taken five years to produce and includes 300 dancers, 5,000 volunteers and 12,000 costumes.
