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New ITV Broadband

(October 2005)

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NE
North East
http://www.itvlocal.tv/index.htm
TE
tesandco Founding member
Wow, a good chance to see 50 Years in the South for anyone outside the region.
NI
Nini
You'vew got to wonder, for a broadcaster seemingly so disinterested in regionality in comparison to 10 years ago, why they'd invest resources in this. Broadcasting Act anyone?
CO
ChrisO
Surly they will have to advertise on these streams? Bandwidth isn’t cheap and when they roll it out across all regions it will cost them an absolute fortune.
AD
Adam
Doesn't seem to work properly in Safari (though it is supposed to). It's WMP that's causing the problem though. Rolling Eyes
TV
TVDragon
Adam posted:
Doesn't seem to work properly in Safari (though it is supposed to). It's WMP that's causing the problem though. Rolling Eyes


Well yes I ended up having to use explorer in the end -- it's all rather pretty really, nice v local weather forecast and I was just about to watch something with Philippa Forrester about a Sussex forest before I realised I didn't really care enough.

Might be nice when it reaches more places of course -- although I can't help thinking only thoroughly provincial places like Ross-on-Wye and Northwich will be chosen, rather than perhaps Widnes or Merthyr Tydfil.
LO
Londoner
The first time I tried it with Safari I got lots of WMV error messages but after that it worked more or less OK.

The local weather was very impressive. Shame about the ancient John Suchet Lunchtime News cap used as an icon for the news section.

The interface is clunkier that it needs to be, but I hope the trial is a success and they roll it out across the country.
DB
dbl
It works OK, in IE, it's a good service I'm sure it would catch on, I was able to watch ITV50: 50 Years in the South, which I didn't get a chance to see. Very Happy
ZO
Zoltan
So, let's see; local news sport and weather, information about the region and what's on and a chance to see local ITV programmes on the web.
Congratulations ITV you've re-invented the wheel.

Certain ITV regions had this running as far back as 2000 but in 2004 dear old ITV decided it was too costly to run and ditched all those regional websites that had local news sport and weather, information about the region and what's on and a chance to see local ITV programmes on the web.
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Adam
Can't get the controls to work at all on the Mac. Haven't tried it on the PC - broken graphics controller.
MS
Mr-Stabby
I'm using it on Safari 2.0.1 with the latest version of WMP for Mac and it's working a treat. Very good indeed.
LO
Londoner
Adam posted:
Can't get the controls to work at all on the Mac. Haven't tried it on the PC - broken graphics controller.

No, the video controls don't work in Safari, but you can view all the content fine.

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