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All You Office Workers Can Catch Live Games on BBC SPORT!

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Old 09-06-2006, 3:58 PM   #1
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All You Office Workers Can Catch Live Games on BBC SPORT!

Very handy for those working late!!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/f...06/4852498.stm
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Old 10-06-2006, 6:30 PM   #2
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Think my IT dept might have something to say about that!!

And surely there is only so many people who can watch it using the BBC website? If a million people log on to watch it surely it will grind to a halt.
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Old 12-06-2006, 2:13 AM   #3
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Think my IT dept might have something to say about that!!

And surely there is only so many people who can watch it using the BBC website? If a million people log on to watch it surely it will grind to a halt.
It's a multicast stream, not exactly rocket science
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Jeez , even the highlights are only available to U.K users
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Old 12-06-2006, 10:45 AM   #5
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Jeez , even the highlights are only available to U.K users
Oh dear! -- wasn't aware it was only to UK users! Thats a bit naff!

The quality isn't great but it's better than nothing.
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Oh dear! -- wasn't aware it was only to UK users! Thats a bit naff!

The quality isn't great but it's better than nothing.

well its f=good i say, as we in the uk pay for the bbc.
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Old 12-06-2006, 4:00 PM   #7
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fairly decent coverage - currently going to "work late" and watch the USA v czech republic game.
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Apparently I am not in the UK

Although it's funny beacause american spyware adverts manage to tell me that I can "Find horny women in Lancashire".
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Old 12-06-2006, 10:50 PM   #9
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I work for an IT department and the policy where I work is to ban streaming video and audio content, it is a bandwidth hog.
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