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Q: Chris Hoy of the British Olympic cycling team carries his country's flag during the opening ceremonies at Olympic Stadium. (Laurence Griffiths / Getty Images / ) 
  
 NBC wants viewers to know: The kickoff of the London Olympics was just too complicated to watch live. 
  
 The network is fighting back against intense criticism of its decision to black out the opening ceremony on Friday, instead offering a taped version hours later in prime time. Viewers reacted with disgust when they tried to watch live coverage of the event on TV or online but could only find a few bootlegging sites carrying the feed in the U.S. 
  
 "We are live streaming every sporting event, all 32 sports and 302 medals," an NBC spokesman wrote in an email to Show Tracker. "It was never our intent to live stream the Opening Ceremony or Closing Ceremony. They are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them. 
  
 "We will be providing clips and highlights of each ceremony online so viewers know what to look forward to in primetime on NBC," the statement added. 
  
 So you got that? Watching a live stream of the opening ceremony could be confusing and possibly even hazardous. Better to let the pros handle it for you. 
  
 What do you think of NBC's decision? 
  
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 Twitter: @scottcollinsLAT ||||| NBC's coverage of the London Olympics opening ceremony came in for a pounding on Twitter late Friday, with the phrase "shut up Matt Lauer" taking on a life of its own, as Storify entries show. 
  
 NBC — already the subject of criticism for deciding it would air the ceremony on a tape delay, to capture a larger overall audience — suffered the ire of Twitter users, who found co-commentators Lauer and Meredith Vieira "annoying as hell," among other things. 
  
 Lauer and Viera were the target of ridicule for their "distracting rambling-ons" (sic) as Americans finally got their chance to watch Danny Boyle's much anticipated showcase. 
  
 The iDigitalTimes listed the top 40 tweets that "proved" Vieira and Lauer's Olympic opening ceremony coverage was an "EPIC FAIL." 
  
 Other criticism of NBC's coverage included that while elsewhere in the world, viewers of the pening ceremony were treated to a moving tribute to the victims of the 7/7 terror attacks in London, set to "Abide with Me," American viewers instead saw an interview with swimmer Michael Phelps, conducted by "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest. 
  
 According to Radio Times, the edit was immediately noted and criticised on Twitter by American viewers who had managed to find a live telecast of the ceremony earlier in the day. 
  
 USA Today took aim at NBC's opening montage, which it described as including "the American clichés about London. Ben, it turns out, really is big." 
  
 It also quoted Lauer's breathless claim that a billion people — "With a B!" — will watch the opening. 
  
 Given that in many countries, TV ratings were "nearly non-existent," USA Today suggested that only a rare host could confidently put such a figure on global viewership. 
  
 Meanwhile, we've compiled some of the more entertaining "shut up Matt Lauer" tweets: ||||| The 2012 Summer Olympics have finally kicked off, and while NBC has been boasting about the digital options it's offering US sports fans, the broadcaster offered no live streaming of the opening ceremonies, instead funneling viewers towards its tape-delayed primetime broadcast this evening. NBC has now defended the decision to the Los Angeles Times, telling the paper in an emailed statement that the ceremonies "are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them." 
  
 However, in the same statement NBC also touts that it is streaming every event from all 32 sports — a massive expanse of coverage that will no doubt demand even more context than the staged entertainment extravaganza that is the Opening Ceremony. As for the issue of translation to the second screen, it's also hard to ignore the fact that NBCUniversal has no problem with viewers watching big-budget spectacles on their computers when it comes to other properties. 
  
 Of course, as a strict business decision NBC's choice makes sense. The Opening Ceremony brought in the second-highest night of ratings for the network's 2008 Olympic coverage, ranking only behind the night Michael Phelps set a new record for Olympic gold medals. Given its online commitment to other areas of this year's Summer Games, however, we can't help but wish NBC had decided to go all the way — because as the Huffington Post's Ethan Klapper points out, tonight's context left something to be desired. ||||| A spectator waves a flag of Great Britain as pyrotechnics light up the sky over the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 27, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Markus... (Associated Press) 
  
 Even before NBC signed on for its coverage of the Summer Olympics in London on Friday, it drew a storm online for its decision not to stream the opening ceremony digitally. Despite the grumbling, it's a decision that may pay off for the network. 
  
 NBC Universal has promised to stream live online every athletic competition in the Summer Games for the first time. But the opening and closing ceremonies were always planned to be shown on tape delay, a network spokesman said. Coverage began shortly before 8 p.m. on the East Coast, about the same time that spectators in London _ which is five hours ahead of New York time _ were filing out of Olympic Stadium. 
  
 NBC Sports spokesman Christopher McCloskey said the ceremonies "are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them." 
  
 Many people took to Twitter to complain Friday that they felt cheated by the decision, and provided online links to other outlets, like the BBC, that were streaming the ceremony online. 
  
 The website for Business Insider said "boo" about NBC's decision and offered two links. The popular sports website Deadspin posted a link to the BBC stream and urged its followers to watch it as a way of sending NBC an obscene gesture. 
  
 CNN's Piers Morgan, who was tweeting details about the ceremony in the late afternoon, tweeted shortly before 7:30 p.m. ET: "Laughable that America is yet to start watching the Olympic ceremony on TV. Seriously." 
  
 But NBC executives will gladly trade the complaints for a repeat of what happened four years ago in Beijing. 
  
 The network similarly offered the opening ceremony then on tape delay and there were many complaints, although less widespread because of a less wired world. But all the talk about the ceremony in the hours before it was televised created a buzz, and the 34.9 million people who watched it was the largest opening ceremony audience in 12 years. NBC makes most of its money through its prime-time advertising, and the strong opening night ratings set a tone that continued throughout the Games. 
  
 NO RUSH: Did some of the Olympic trivia uncovered by NBC researchers hit the cutting room floor on Friday? NBC prime time hosts Bob Costas and Matt Lauer noted more than once that athletes were entering the stadium for the opening parade at a faster clip than normal. 
  
 UPCOMING: We'll know quickly whether swimmer Michael Phelps will make these games his personal gold mine, like he did in Beijing. Phelps' faceoff with fellow American Ryan Lochte in the 400 meter individual medley highlights Saturday's full opening day of competition. |||||
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London put on quite the spectacle to open the Olympics, though TV viewers in the US had to watch on tape delay. For that, NBC took loads of criticism on Twitter, notes AP television writer David Bauder. So why didn't the network at least live-stream it online? Because it makes more money getting people to tune in during prime time is the easy answer, but the network has a different, official-sounding explanation, as per the LA Times: Opening and closing ceremonies "are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them." (Which Bryan Bishop at the Verge finds a wee bit insulting to viewer intelligence.) Unfortunately for NBC, the context it provided during the tape-delayed broadcast didn't please all fans either, notes GlobalPost, "with the phrase 'shut up Matt Lauer' taking on a life of its own, as Storify entries show."