A second Olympics app, called NBC Olympics: Rio News & Results, requires no subscription but provides just news, medal counts, video highlights, and TV listings. Some other TV providers, such as Dish, are also offering an NBC Olympics app on their high-end boxes, with access to medal counts and schedules. If you’re a cable cutterIf you’ve liberated yourself from cable subscriptions, watching the Olympics isn’t easy, but it is doable. You need a 4K TV to see 4K. In the past, watching the Olympics on TV required sorting through a big mess of nine NBC-owned channels, plus separate streaming apps and video-on-demand services on different devices.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 03, 2016 17:03 UTC