Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online 349
farkinga writes "For those of us that no longer have a television, live TV events can be a challenge to watch. Fortunately, tonight's Presidential Debate has attracted the attention of most US broadcasters, many of whom will provide online viewing options. Leading the way is Hulu, a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp, who will stream the Fox-branded feed tonight — assuming they worked out the bandwidth issues that came up during the second debate!"
Live? (Score:5, Informative)
I'm more interested in a recorded version, since I'll be busy during the actual debate... :/
Linux? No CNN. (Score:5, Informative)
I tried during the last debate to watch it on CNN.com/live but it appeared their video player didn't allow Ubuntu/Firefox to connect. After further research, they use some vbscript in their code. I'll definitely watch it, just not with CNN.
Re:Live? (Score:5, Informative)
Take a look at eztv.it: http://eztv.it/index.php?main=search [eztv.it] - you can usually find debates available for download after the fact; either same day or at the most, the next day.
Re:Live? (Score:5, Informative)
C-SPAN posts the complete debate videos on their YouTube account [youtube.com]. If you ever miss a debate, check there first.
No Hulu for me (Score:4, Informative)
I'm an American living abroad and Hulu has region restrictions, so it doesn't work for me. Bastards.
"Presidential Agreement" (Score:1, Informative)
Too bad its written, directed and produced by the republicans and democrats. Its not like the coporate media, who contributes heavily to both parties, will ask any hard questions. There will never again be a third party in the debates. Hardly a non-partisan 'debate'. The last two elections were very likely stolen anyhow. Personally, I can see almost no difference between these republicrats. I hope Donald Duck wins the election. Considering how secure the electronic voting machines are, its not that unlikely.
Re:podcasts? audio? mp3's ? (Score:4, Informative)
BBC (Score:4, Informative)
Or you could... (Score:3, Informative)
Hack the Debate = debate + twitter (Score:2, Informative)
Current does a 'Hack the Debate' live mashup of the debates with users' tweets. Anyone can tweet with #current in the message & current puts as many as possible on-screen during the live debate broadcast. I haven't watched it live, yet, but saw some vid of it and it looks really cool.
http://current.com/topics/88834922_hack_the_debate [current.com]
New York Times Anyone? (Score:1, Informative)
The New York Times has had the feed online on their front page for all three debates so far (including vp). That's where I've watched them. It's presented in a flash player so it should be cross platform. It's not high def, but it's reliable as long as you've got an internet connection.
Just go to www.nytimes.com when the debate is set to start.
Re:Multicast (Score:3, Informative)
Yeah, but he'd have to start the client at 8:00 anyway. Assuming the feed doesn't exist until then, he wouldn't be able to set it up beforehand either.
how to get CNN live on linux (Score:5, Informative)
You can get it to work: just use VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ [videolan.org]
and open the video stream:
File->Open Network Stream
check HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MSS and put in the url http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx [cnn.com]
then watch and try not to vomit!
Re:Much easier at 1.5X speed (Score:3, Informative)
I have TV. I still set my MythTV to record it, and started watching about an hour in.
Why ? So I could use time-stretch to watch it at 1.5X speed. They take forever to say the simplest thing.
Time stretch is amazing. Get done in less time, without everyone sounding like chipmunks.
My MythTV box died a while ago and that time-stretch feature is by far the number one thing that I miss. I am going to replace my MythTV box just for that. I'm not aware of any other DVR that does that. It's an awesome little feature. The debates would have been so much more interesting in time-stretch.
Re:Live? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Linux? No CNN. (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Overdrive (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Overdrive (Score:3, Informative)
"American" means "of the Americas". Anybody living on the continents of North or South America could rightly call themselves "American".
"USian" is probably not the best term to use, but it's a damn sight more accurate than "American".
In my country (Uruguay), we regularly do refer to ourselves as "Americanos" (American in Spanish).
:)
When somebody calls himself an "American" in English we understand what they mean, but in Spanish we call them "Estadounidenses" - which should be translated to USian
and even then it could be a bit of a misnomer (Brazil for example is United States of Brazil, etc...)