2023 Asian Games

[Bear]

Looks like SBS On Demand will have some streams available for Australia, still trying to look for anything that'll work in the US tho

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/collection/asian-games-2023-live-and-upcoming

[Bear]

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I haven’t had much luck with any of the Asian broadcasters. Most of the streams on streaming services behind a paywall that requires national ID 

Singapore's Mediacorp through a VPN seems to work, you just need to create an account with them

[Olympian1010]

11 hours ago, Bear said:

Singapore's Mediacorp through a VPN seems to work, you just need to create an account with them

I have a couple of VPNs, but Mediacorp has been able to block them.

[Ikarus360]

You can watch in MBC if you have a VPN which allows connection to SK

https://onair.imbc.com/

[Ikarus360]

Seems these guys know no other song than Ode to Motherland.

[Ikarus360]

The cauldron?

[Ikarus360]

Chinese Taipei received with loud cheers

Some more scenes of the Parade of Nations

I arrived somewhat late. Hopefully someone reuploads it to the tube later.

[Ikarus360]

Augmented reality use in ceremonies seems to be here to stay now (being used in Birmigham as well despite being the first post-Covid ceremony). One of Pyeongchang's things which I think was a bad influence for these shows. Oh well.

[Ikarus360]

Cauldron is kinda reminiscing of Vancouver's in a way except a single flame and no glitches in the mechanism.

[Shiruba98]

1 hour ago, Ikarus360 said:

The cauldron?

Correct!

[Olympian1010]

2 hours ago, Ikarus360 said:

Augmented reality use in ceremonies seems to be here to stay now (being used in Birmigham as well despite being the first post-Covid ceremony). One of Pyeongchang's things which I think was a bad influence for these shows. Oh well.

At least it felt more mature today. There was some artistic value outside general curiosity or innovation. I do feel it was a bit over used though.

[Ikarus360]

Full Opening Ceremony here. Watch it before its taken down (i'll try to find a better version in the meanwhile)

 

[TorchbearerSydney]

Q: Augmented reality use in ceremonies seems to be here to stay now

This annoys me so much- so much in our World is fake these days...do our ceremonies have to have fake things as well?

[AustralianFan]

3 hours ago, Ikarus360 said:

Full Opening Ceremony here. Watch it before its taken down (i'll try to find a better version in the meanwhile)

 

Thanks so much @Ikarus360, watching it now.

Wow, it’s on an Olympic scale. 

[AustralianFan]

Like ‘Beijing 2008’  2.0

[AustralianFan]

Didn’t know the Olympic Council of Asia had it’s own hymn for their flag raising.

[AustralianFan]

The throwback in time had feels of Athens 2004

[Bear]

An enjoyable ceremony. The AR fireworks were nice, better than having no fireworks at all. Also, were those projections on the floor or was it an LED screen?

[BigVic]

The future of ceremonies is here. Get used to this in future  Olympic ceremonies. Remimds me of Beijing 2022 with a giant LED stage 

[Bear]

2 hours ago, BigVic said:

The future of ceremonies is here. Get used to this in future  Olympic ceremonies. Remimds me of Beijing 2022 with a giant LED stage 

I mean it's been like this ever since Sochi, unless you mean the fake fireworks, in which case, Beijing 2008 already did it

[Ikarus360]

Closing Ceremony to begin soon:https://onair.imbc.com/

Nagoya will be a more minimalistic/on a lower scale edition (Hotels instead of Athletes village and the Swiming events will be done in Tokyo already existing venue).Sadly, a consequence of the trainwreck which was Tokyo 2020 (the organizers are even explicity saying they have to avoid the mistakes from the Olympics).

However, depending on how it plays out, if Aichi-Nagoya (which has been an area in Japan that has been deprived of sport events) meets its goal, it might make people in Japan recover trust in large scale sport events.

[Ikarus360]

Looks like the girl from the Handover in Jakarta's closing.

[Ikarus360]

Well, that was a very simplistic handover. They really want to keep this as low profile as they can.

[Ikarus360]