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Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the play-the-drinking-game dept.

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!"

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  1. Live? by clone53421 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm more interested in a recorded version, since I'll be busy during the actual debate... :/

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    1. Re:Live? by Laebshade · · Score: 5, Informative

      Take a look at eztv.it: http://eztv.it/index.php?main=search - you can usually find debates available for download after the fact; either same day or at the most, the next day.

    2. Re:Live? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

      C-SPAN posts the complete debate videos on their YouTube account. If you ever miss a debate, check there first.

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    3. Re:Live? by dthrall · · Score: 3, Informative

      BBC has a great live stream with commentary by their journalists & random twitters... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/default.stm They usually post the link on the Americas page about at least 30 minutes before the start of the debate.

  2. Linux? No CNN. by arhhook · · 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.

  3. No Hulu for me by grouchomarxist · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm an American living abroad and Hulu has region restrictions, so it doesn't work for me. Bastards.

  4. Re:podcasts? audio? mp3's ? by kevin_conaway · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try C-SPAN

  5. BBC by Speare · · Score: 3, Informative

    I didn't want to install some stupid plugins and codecs for other networks, so I just hopped over to the BBC for their live streaming web broadcasts. The little screen is not going to be confused for HD but there were no hiccups or dropouts for the other three debates so far. Why depend on US broadcasters when all eyes around the world are paying attention to the high-stakes face off of US political elections?

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  6. how to get CNN live on linux by wwwrench · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can get it to work: just use VLC media player
    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
    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

    then watch and try not to vomit!

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