[Gllug] BBC News 24 at higher quality

[Pete Ryland]

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!

> Unfortunately it seems to be Realplayer only, which sucks.
> 
> If you're interested, CNN's closed captions are being broadcast on
> #cnn-live on EFNet IRC.

Ironic, since IRC only became popular because of the last Gulf War, when
there was a moderated channel with hundreds of people (including media) on
it getting reports from the situation there first hand.

> Anyone got a decent URL for high-quality CNN, BBC and Fox News streams
> in Windows Media format so I can use my preferred player, mplayer?

Sorry, no.

Pete
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