[Gllug] BBC News 24 at higher quality

Dylan dylan at dylan.me.uk
Sat Mar 22 23:20:28 UTC 2003


On Saturday 22 March 2003 22:59, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 09:10:44PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > Just some pointers for those of you interested in getting news at the
> > moment.  The BBC does broadband streaming for _some_ ISPs in the UK
> > (see this list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/info/providers.shtml).
> > Unfortunately it hides the actual Realplayer link so you have to dig
> > to find it.
> >
> > BBC News24 can be watched at:
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/live/now5.ram
>
> Wow.  Now that's *much* better quality!

You're not wrong!

>
> > Unfortunately it seems to be Realplayer only, which sucks.

Do you think we could make a concerted effort to explain the problems to the 
BBC?

Dylan

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