任是无情也动人

Haven't been able to find a replay of it so far. Anyone else had luck?

CCTV replay can be found here, but apparently can't be accessed from overseas? Tried VPN and doesn't seem to work.
https://tv.cctv.com/cctv5/index.shtml?spm=C28340.P10QUzIsypHP.0.0

Hm... can watch 30 mins for free at the below link. Unless you have a TV provider account with more access, or pay for Peacock streaming service.
https://stream.nbcolympics.com/nbc-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony?chrcontext=KHNL

EDIT: Eurosport has the full version of the ceremony, though need to VPN to Europe to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usQ8pVRqd5U

EDIT2: Full opening and closing ceremonies are now available on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUs0iL5QOVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPYldRoEbZs

EDIT3: Saving for reference, the ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufV3EgyPGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJd2d4-CEqw

Saw the closing live on CCTV5 at 5 in the morning. It wasn't as grand as the opening, leaving me with just a little feeling of "虎头蛇尾". Then again, I realize that the opening may have been far too tough an act to really follow up on, maybe.

OR, on thinking deeper, if the opening ceremony is mainly focused on the long history of China to this momentous day/era/etc, and the closing ceremony is supposed to mainly reflect modern day Chinese society... then... well, it's sadly accurate. Culturally, we seem to have left the best of our artistic (performing, musical, artistry, etc.) talents somewhere in the Tang and Ming dynasties. =_=;

OK, maybe that's a little harsh. But the mish-mash of pop stars yelling at the top of their lungs at the end, not to mention Jackie Chan's appearance (he's so adorable up there *wibbles*), is a rather good portrayal of today's "common day life" in China.

At any rate, at 8:30 I watched NBC version. Once again, they cut out a lot of parts for commercials and did some of the songs at the end out of order. Also, I have no idea where they parked their camera crew, cuz the acoustics was so bad that sound for the various pop songs at the end sounded like it came from a cell phone recording.

BUT! The biggest difference is the commentary that was droning on in the background. They actually remained silent during some parts (such as the human-flame-tower bit) instead of making up random "meanings" like they did the opening. And that wasn't the most shocking change! There were no more politically charged comments that drove me into contemplating violence across the TV screen! No more badmouthing China while watching the performance!

I dunno, maybe the last 2 weeks of hospitality in China given to these reporters was as good an influence as the Chinese government undoubtedly hoped for. Or maybe they were too embarrassed to badmouth the country after the final gold count became clear. Or maybe NBC is too happy rolling in the $ and ratings it's been getting to think bad thoughts of the conspirator that made it all possible. Whatever it was, let's see how long it lasts. (Certainly didn't last for long on the internet news, that's all I can say.)

Overall, what do you know?

8:08 8-8-08 was China's lucky moment after all. ^_^

PS: Anyone help me figure out if Yahoo news even has a place where it archives old articles?

Nastia Luikin got gold and Shawn Johnson got silver. Yang Yilin made bronze. Jiang Yuyuan unfortunately got off to a bad start and didn't make the ranks.

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EDIT: In other news, yesterday China's Li Na beat USA's Venus Williams in tennis (won 2 sets straight with 7-5) and got into the semifinals. *cheers*

According to yahoo's news entry, NBC withholding live Olympic events from west coast viewers - it's not enough that NBC is only broadcasting SOME events "live", as well as liberally cutting time out of said broadcasts to fit in commercials, those events will only be "live" for the East Coast. *stabs* I especially love the 3000+ replies echoing disgust at NBC's broken promises, incompetence, and general stupidity.

Here's some other news entries from Silicon Valley Insider - NBC Olympics: We Don't Care If You Hate Us, You're Watching USA-China Basketball On Tape Delay, NBC Lawyers In Panic Mode, Scrambling To Stamp Out Internet Olympics Feeds, Olympic Committee Outraged About USA Fans Watching Live Online, Sends Takedown Notices.

On a more helpful front, here's two more articles from SVI - How To Watch The Beijing Olympics LIVE On The Web -- Even If NBC Doesn't Want You To, YouTube At The Olympics: Exclusive Video You Can't Watch

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.

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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.

I tried to filter out the ones from the official album.

Part 1/2: http://www.savefile.com/files/1713277
Part 2/2: http://www.savefile.com/files/1713310

Not sure if we're going to be able to get the special channel for the Olympics. (And how stupid is that to dedicate a channel to an international event that's not, y'know, easily available internationally? *rolleyes*)

So, anyone know of a website/place where I would be able to watch the opening, preferably "live" or close to it, online?

EDIT: ref http://cashew.insanejournal.com/1285489.html