Beijing Olympics - Opening Ceremony

Starts at 8/8/08 8:08 PM Being time. Which is 5:08 AM here. Which means I've been up since an unholy hour of morning to watch it live over SopCast. With its itty bitty screen. *sigh*

*stabs NBC* Freaking greedy, censoring, capitalist pigs.

( Random initial responses... )

EDIT to add:
linky w/ pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfdVBb08HZg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhDoJNN6Ndw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAukz--Ms6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s4zg2O9qiE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nycxfRdvt-E

To ADD:
<<春江花月夜>> is the song I want.

Review of the NBC version of the Olympics opening

Disclaimer: I feel extreme dislike for NBC and what it stands for right now. Some comments might have bashing be biased. Caveat lector.

ADD: Just learned from the net that Canada was in the same boat as the US. Some station bought all the broadcast rights and enforced its monopoly in the same draconic way as NBC.

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In summary: CCTV version is 200% better.