Having Sky News is a bonus - I always enjoy flicking between Sky and BBC's coverage of a breaking event (fascinating to see the differing editorial stances), plus the usual things like different commentators and 'experts' during a breakinge event. France 24 in English and French is nice, though I can watch those online (but albeit it much lower quality) - the quality hasn't gone down either, which is very nice. Addition of a scannable EPG is a very nifty bolt-on, and channel changing is pretty smooth and seamless, with only minimal breakup during the initial few seconds. Occasional stuttering but overall very watchable. I love subtle UIs like the LiveStation one! It just... works... Like I hope the iPlayer TV streaming interface becomes when that's rolled out ;) I like how when windowed, you even get the extra menus to extend the functionality (I like menus, lots of lovely options)... Needs more A/V options though to config things like buffering periods and EPG data retention etc (but I'm just an unstoppable tweaker). Happily, even the Silverlight installation went without a hitch! I'm right in thinking Silverlight uses H264, yeah?
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 12 February 2008 21:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Livestation It's worked OK on the PCs I have tried. Al Jazera was slower to start than News 24, and the French channels work. I was a bit disappointed - but not surprised - to find BBC World Service than BBC World. It's ahead of the News 24 Windows Media stream, which is interesting. On 12/02/2008, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Indeed, I just received my account activation email (months after I signed up!) but I had been piggybacking on someone else's shared UID occasionally (it might've even been Brian who gave me access!) - which was useful, but I lost all the configs anyway when my laptop broke in November. Just installing this latest build onto my laptop now, hopefully the quality's not decreased since I last used it :) And, knowing me, I'll end up blogging about it instead of doing work tonight, I have a bad habit of doing that. Isn't procrastination fun. ...I'm doing it already! _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 12 February 2008 19:00 To: [email protected] Subject: [backstage] Livestation I've just had an update on the LiveStation product. It's a kind of live TV streaming IPTV product, and now has a choice of channels. http://www.livestation.com/account/download Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv <http://www.ukfree.tv/> -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
