Really liking BBC iPlayer
I missed an episode of a show I on BBC 1 the other day, and rather than miss it I decided to finally check out the BBC i player for myself.
For anyone whose never used it, the iPlayer is a small download that sits on your PC and streams video from the BBC to your PC.
They have a massive back log of smaller clips found on the BBC news site, that can be played through your PC without the iPlayer such as this link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7598674.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7636577.stm (you have to watch this one)
But you also visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ and search through the weeks listing to find the show you missed.
Watching it through your web browser is fine, sit far enough away from the screen and you don't notice how blocky it is. It sometimes gets abit laggy to, causing the show to stop and splutter. I can live with this, but the kids get annoyed and start tapping the laptop.
Any way I've found my show in the listing http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dncnz/ and I'll watch it later.
Useful Pages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_one BBC one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_two BBC Two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_three BBC Three
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_four BBC Four
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/cbeebies Cbeebies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/cbbc cBBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_news24 BBC News 24
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WM bit of a tecnophobe
WM bit of a tecnophobe myself but this is getting some good recomendations.
ZATTOO
Zattoo, is a download that is available for Windows (Vista / XP), Mac and Linux that allows you to watch TV on your PC. It works via P2P and is normally a few seconds behind sky (which is normally a few seconds behind).
The system requirements happen to be:-
VISTA
P4 2.0 Ghz, 512 Ram, Vista and Broadband
WIN XP
P3 1.5 Ghz, 512 MB, Win 2000 (SP3) or Win XP, DirectX 8.0 and Broadband
MAC
667 Mhz Power PC G4, 256 MB Ram, Mac OS 10.3.9, Broadband
LINUX
Intel P3 1.5 Ghz, 512 MB, Broadband, OpenGL Video (recommended), with Debian Etch and Ubuntu 8.04 or 7.10 – others many be supported (don’t ask me I run Vista!)
Zattoo can be used in the following locations:-
UK, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.
In the UK you have access to the following channels:-BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News, BBC Parliament, CBBC. CBeebies, ITV1, HTV, Ulster TV, Channel 4, Channel 5, ABC News Now , Al Jazeera Arabic, AutoMoto TV, Bloomberg UK, Community Channel, Deutsche Welle, EuroNews, France 24 English, France 24 French, Information TV, Russia Today, SF info, STV, sumo.tv, TeleZuri, The Poker Channel and TV8 Mont-Blanc
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