I don’t subscribe to cable news at home.
Instead I now rely on the Internet for almost all my news since I’ve basically also stopped reading the papers as well. Having said that, I’ll admit that watching the news on TV, is a lot easier than reading RSS feeds - So yes, I do miss it.
Livestation is a free Internet service dedicated to serving up live news stations like BBC, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera and many other internationally flavored news channels.
The technology Livestation currently uses, is a peer-to-peer streaming model just like Joost. In fact, Livestation works and looks a lot like Joost, but as its name suggests - operates LIVE rather than the on-demand model offered by Joost so the news broadcasts you get are live, not an older archived video.
So, in essence, what you get is full screen, smooth and hight quality stuff. All free, and all legal. Now, I know there are a LOT of news streaming sites, but none come even close in terms of looking as good as this. Furthermore this being an open beta, there’s also a fair amount of constant development going on like Twitter integration (where you can twitter your Internet TV watching activities to your friends directly from the player), and an ever growing channel collection (>450 at the time of writing for this post).
You know what? I don’t subscribe to cable news…. and the rate technology is progressing - I don’t think I’ll need it anytime soon :)
Visit: Livestation
August 6th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I use both Livestation and Zatto, complimentary in the channels provided, live. But as far as the video quality is concerned, Zatto is slightly better, IMO.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
@Transcontinental: Thanks for the tip. Just a note to all that Zatto is only available at this point in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. If you’re from one of those countries give it a spin - if not you can sign up to be notified when Zatto reaches your country.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Sorry for those not living in above mentioned countries and who might have been interested by Zatto. Livestation is getting better and better (I enjoy it a lot) and perhaps is more planet wide than Zatto. Still, if Zatto ever comes to you, do give it a try. It’s based on P2P like Livestation, and seems an interesting option as well for LIVE Web TV! (I love to see ads from US TV from here in France though I rather dislike ads in general :) )