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The opening ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games is Friday at 8 p.m. ET but NBC’s coverage of the games actually gets underway today with live coverage of women’s soccer, including U.S. vs. New Zealand at 6 p.m. ET.

NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app will live stream 4,500 hours—including all Olympic Games competition—for authenticated pay TV subscribers via TV Everywhere to desktops, mobile devices, and tablets, plus connected TVs for the first time.

You can download the NBC Sports app from the App Store or at the Roku Channel Store.

See NBC’s live streaming at nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule.

For the broadcast coverage schedule, visit nbcolympics.com/tv-listings.

But wait, what about 4K Ultra HD?

NBC will distribute 83 hours of 4K Ultra HD (UHD) coverage to cable, satellite, telco providers, and “other partners.” The coverage will be made available on a one-day delay and will include 4K UHD footage from the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, swimming, track and field, basketball, the men’s soccer final, and judo.

The UHD coverage of the Opening Ceremony, which will be produced by NBC Olympics, will include high dynamic range (HDR) video and Dolby Atmos surround sound.

One UHD event from the previous day’s competition will be provided daily from August 6, the day after the Opening Ceremony, through August 22, the day after the Games conclude.

NBC Olympics will distribute the 4K UHD coverage provided by Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and Japan’s NHK to U.S. distribution partners, who will individually choose how they will make the content available to their customers.

If you’re a cord cutter, you’ll be able to stream NBC’s coverage of the Olympics on Bravo, NBC (where available), NBC Sports Network, and USA if you subscribe to Sling TV’s Sling Blue service, which costs $25 a month. New customers who sign up can watch seven days for free. If you’re looking for an angle, there might be one here…

For more information on Sling Blue, visit blog.sling.com.