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Geek Culture / ABC had to fudge it up...

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Osiris
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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 08:49
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Does anyone else stream episodes off of ABC like me? Well if you do you will find out that they just fudged it up. It started out nice, being able to watch those episodes of LOST in HD anytime I wanted, then today they just had to make it harder than it needs to be. Before today all you needed to do was go to their website and watch the shows, but now you cant just do that. Now you need a plugin that might I add only works in IE, because it freezes Firefox. Now is it just me or do you guys think thats really stupid, that they didn't even test their new plugin in Firefox? Well hopefully they will fix it soon.

Just wanted to A. rant and B. tell people if they were confused as to why Firefox keeps freezing when they try to watch shows there.

RIP Max-Tuesday, November 2 2007
You will be dearly missed.
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GatorHex
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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 10:36 Edited at: 26th Apr 2008 10:51
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Beware the plugin/download for media streaming

ISPs are realy mad in the UK because the BBC iPlayer HD download version is actually running like iMesh Peer 2 Peer in that the stuff you download is being shared out to the internet via your connection!

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=433249&in_page_id=2

I use the lower quality version that streams from the web page.

DinoHunter (still no nVidia compo voucher!), CPU/GPU Benchmark, DarkFish Encryption DLL, War MMOG (WIP), 3D Model Viewer
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Anonymous User
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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 10:44
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I use BBC iPlayer a lot so thanks for pointing that out GatorHex.

And Osiris give it time the BBC version of the plugin was IE only for a while but after a couple of moth's they released the firefox one. Now they're trying to make it into a Wii channel.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 11:08 Edited at: 26th Apr 2008 11:14
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If your in the UK and still using a BT based "pay per Gigabyte" service i suggest you move to http://www.beunlimited.co.uk/

DinoHunter (still no nVidia compo voucher!), CPU/GPU Benchmark, DarkFish Encryption DLL, War MMOG (WIP), 3D Model Viewer
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