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New ITV Player launches with pay mechanism (January 2006)

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CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
02cashindavid posted:
Not much news, is there? That's slightly disappointing.

I think since the decline of the ITV News Channel the news page has been declining in content. The launch of 'ITV News Uploaded' meant that they can cut back further as they'll still have content to fill the site, just provided for free by viewers.
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SillyTilly
I love the new TV guide section. I am disappointed with the rest though.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
No sooner up than down, at the moment I'm getting redirected to...
http://images.preview.itv.com.edgesuite.net/unavailable.html
Quote:
We're Sorry

Unfortunately itv.com is unavailable at the moment.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Please try again later.
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markstewart
Back now, with the preview addresses gone. A lot of the site has gone a bit haywire now, while they move all of it over to itv.com rather than preview.itv.com
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GMc
itv.com/weather shows an error message. Is this tempoary, or have ITV scrapped this?
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rob Founding member
The new homepage looks pretty impressive I must say.
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frostat01
yea but the itv regions pages are down as when u click a link it tells you this. http://www.itvregions.com/Yorkshire/News/
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gottago
It would appear all recognition of the regions has disappeared, even in the A to Z! That said, ITV Local isn't listed there either.

The homepage is OK but the random purple at the top and the only Flash (is that what it is?) content on the site just feel weird. It would have been nicer seeing the original black scheme on the homepage. Also is anyone else seeing the video player and advert on the front page down too far?
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Standby
Charlie Wells posted:
02cashindavid posted:
Not much news, is there? That's slightly disappointing.

I think since the decline of the ITV News Channel the news page has been declining in content. The launch of 'ITV News Uploaded' meant that they can cut back further as they'll still have content to fill the site, just provided for free by viewers.

The content is still available from ITN, it's just they've chose not to use it. Bizarre. No surprise though as they stated the new site would only carry ten stories and we'd already seen it in the preview clip. Doubt I will be using the news section anymore though.
MM
MockMania
In my opinion, I don't think it's that nice.

I think the design is poor and a lack of vibrancy with colour.

I would have preferred one of the original ideas. Don't like white background.
SK
skynewsfreak
MockMania posted:
In my opinion, I don't think it's that nice.

I think the design is poor and a lack of vibrancy with colour.

I would have preferred one of the original ideas. Don't like white background.


Here Here! Wink

I know this has been in the planning for ages, but to me... it looks like a very "rushed" through job... it could be better.
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David_02
I like the fact it's consistent and I do think it's an improvement but it's not the best design in the world - and the homepage looks a bit of a mess. All the pages are very cluttered as well - a problem they had with the last design and something that hasn't been dealt with. I'm still upset that they didn't stick with the design we first saw which I thought was a much better layout and just the look of it was a lot better.

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