- The pageantry, the athleticism, the world coming together
to share in the excitement and drama of competition.
And you don't wanna miss a pixel of it.
The Olympics are in full swing.
And if you wanna keep up with the action,
here's what you're gonna need.
♪ This is where I would hum the Olympics theme, ♪
♪ But copyright ♪
(upbeat music)
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Watching the Olympics.
It's all about quality, price, and features.
Now, if you're already subscribed to some kind of cable
or satellite TV package, then you're probably good to go.
Likewise, if you own an HD antenna,
you might not have the easiest time recording content,
but you're ready with a setup to watch in real time
in very good quality.
It's some of the online streaming options
in the middle that can get a bit sticky.
You can get some short free passes
on the NBC Olympics website, but after a half hour viewing,
you'll be prompted to log in
with some kind of cable provider account.
This is the season where services like Peacock
are likely to get an uptick in viewership.
Fubo.tv has been mentioned as a hot service for sports fans.
And of course, we have options like YouTube TV and Sling.
I feel this is an interesting year for the Olympics.
As the proliferation of 4K TVs is at an all time high,
and more services are supporting 1080P streams
and 4K streams, even for live events.
Taking YouTube TV is a specific example,
you're gonna need a box capable
of supporting both YouTube TV the service
and has hardware that can put out a 4K image.
Devices like the Chromecast with Google TV,
a newer Apple TV, Amazon Firestick 4K,
or newer smart TVs with either app support for YouTube TV
or TVs that have a Chromecast or a Google TV built in.
These should all support
both the streaming side of the service
and be able to output the quality of a 4K stream.
But feeding that quality
with a data connection can also be a little tricky.
Google recommends a minimum
of a consistent three-megabit-per-second data connection
to stream in standard definition.
We jump to around a 13-megabit-per-second connection
to stream in HD.
And we jump again
to a 25-megabit connection to stream in 4K.
And if you follow this conversation in the past,
just because you pay your service provider
or a certain speed, that doesn't guarantee
that you will consistently get that speed.
It's still a challenge to work out
exactly how fast your connection can sustain.
And that's often influenced
by the devices streaming in your home
and the behavior of your neighbors.
I pay for a 400-megabit-per-second download,
but if my wife and I are both watching streaming content
and high quality on different streams,
we're not always guaranteed
to keep that top tier 4K quality.
If the whole family is watching the same screen
at the same time, then you're probably good.
But there's any competing traffic on your network,
it might be more difficult
to keep the highest quality stream intact.
We actually have a separate video on this channel
talking about game streaming.
You can check out with more of the math
on how all this stuff works.
Wait for that video down in the description.
Also, folks on a data cap
might need to keep a slightly closer eye on their use.
A 25-megabit-per-second stream
is roughly three megabytes per second,
which is almost 190 megabytes per minute,
or about 11 gigabytes per hour.
If you only stream one hour of Olympics coverage a day,
in 4K over the whole of the Olympic games,
you'll be adding roughly 180 gigabytes
of additional data to your monthly use in February.
I definitely streamed more than one hour last night.
Especially when you're able to watch live,
investing in a good old fashioned HD antenna
doesn't seem like such a bad idea
if you have a data cap these days.
How are you keeping up with the games this year?
Are you streaming?
I know our audience has a healthy collection
of cord cutters.
And are there any other options we might have missed?
Drop us some comments down below.
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