Internet TV Beta
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Got it installed and it plays the advert fine but then doesnt bufffer the actual programme 
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Nice concept, but I can't see me using it too much.
- Don't want to watch an American ad everytime I choose something to play
- Inserts ads during the programme
- Can't fast forward through ad's
- Poor picture quality when watching on a decent TV, probably quite good on a PC.
- Seems to reset zoom/aspect ratio each programme
- Needs to integrate with iPlayer, 4od etc
- Programme info sometimes reports wrong duration (edit: program info shows the "part" duration. E.g. a 30 min prog showed as 13mins...then showed an ad...then info showed 16 mins for part 2 - wasn't clear it was split into parts)
It could be quite good, and it is only a beta, but the ads will kill it for me - especially as you're forced to watch them and they're before every programme or clip which is too excessive - I could live with it if they were on a timer, or number of clips or sessions - something like when watching a playlist on MSN videos.
Ironic when MC lets you skip through ads on DVDs (like the annoying copyright ones) that you can't normally skip on a standalone DVD player
It'll depend on content, but at the moment TunerFreeMCE is a better bet for me - and I might look at this for music vids and trailers...with ads :groan:
- Don't want to watch an American ad everytime I choose something to play
- Inserts ads during the programme
- Can't fast forward through ad's
- Poor picture quality when watching on a decent TV, probably quite good on a PC.
- Seems to reset zoom/aspect ratio each programme
- Needs to integrate with iPlayer, 4od etc
- Programme info sometimes reports wrong duration (edit: program info shows the "part" duration. E.g. a 30 min prog showed as 13mins...then showed an ad...then info showed 16 mins for part 2 - wasn't clear it was split into parts)
It could be quite good, and it is only a beta, but the ads will kill it for me - especially as you're forced to watch them and they're before every programme or clip which is too excessive - I could live with it if they were on a timer, or number of clips or sessions - something like when watching a playlist on MSN videos.
Ironic when MC lets you skip through ads on DVDs (like the annoying copyright ones) that you can't normally skip on a standalone DVD player
It'll depend on content, but at the moment TunerFreeMCE is a better bet for me - and I might look at this for music vids and trailers...with ads :groan:
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On a decent TV it should be the opposite, SD content on my 24" PC monitor looks far worse than it does on my 42" plasma.
720P HD stuff also looks a lot better on my TV.
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Well it's terrible on my TV, so it must be shocking on a PC then - not something I'd enjoy watching unless it was the only option 
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It's being doing the error since this AM for me.
I'm guessing they're doing some work to optimise it for more ads
I'm guessing they're doing some work to optimise it for more ads
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You can still watch the news, all be it US news!