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[_] BBC trialing Flash video at long last

Steve Roome steve at pepcross.com
Wed Jun 6 19:29:19 BST 2007

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:59:50PM +0100, Pete Fairhurst wrote:
> Death to Real Player and WMV -- the revolution is *finally* here!  Example
> page:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6726441.stm
> 
> Make sure you complete the online questionnaire and insist they (the BBC)
> switch to Flash across the board; streaming audio and video:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6626485.stm
> 
> Much better than that antiquated MS/RealNetworks crap.

It only gave me a 224k/s real stream because apparently my browser
"doesn't support scriptable plugins", whatever that means.

I was kind of hoping for multicast or IP6.

        Steve