Playback controls are overlaid on top of the video stream. Livestation broadcast streams encoded in VC-1 format (Livestation is not currently using peer-to-peer). The service was originally based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research. LiveStation is highly recommended for those who like to watch, rather than read, news. It has been developed by Skinkers Ltd and is now a new company called Livestation Ltd. Then there are desktop alerts which are wired to the channels’ Twitter feeds that allow you to receive news alerts as they are pushed out. I’m actually watching Al Jazeera as I’m preparing this review. The ‘always on top’ is another handy feature that keeps the player running in a corner of your screen while you work. The Pro version lets you get as many channels on screen as your bandwidth allows you to. There is a Multi-View feature that enables you to watch two channels at the same time. Buy concert tickets for top tours and festivals - Live Nation is your premier source for latest tour news, artist insights, exclusive videos, photos, and more. Users can add their own channels (if they have the stream URL) and filter the list by news, sports, music and location (US/UK). If you want better quality, you can opt in for the Premium service ($19.99 for life) and get higher quality streaming at 800kbps delivered via an international content distribution network for higher reliability.Ĭurrent live TV news channels in the global offering (which comes with a default installation) include France24 in English, French, and Arabic, Al Arabiya in Arabic, Al Jazeera in English and Arabic, Bloomberg Television, C-SPAN, Deutsche Welle TV and radio in English and German, Democratic Voice of Burma, Euronews in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, Russia Today in English and Arabic, BBC World News, BBC World Service Radio, BBC Arabic, ITN, Press TV and BBC Persian. Surely the fastest way to post a picture from live TV to Twitter.Īt 256kbps, the video quality is decent, more than enough actually, for news. LiveStation makes it easy to take a screen grab of what you are watching and post the image to Twitter along with your comments. Want to do more? Connect your Twitter account, and then you can tweet while you watch. You can also chat with other users who are watching the same channel. The free version of LiveStation player offers a number of free channels to watch – the good ones are already there, namely, BBC, Al Jazeera, NASA TV, ESPN Live, and oh! MTV, Cartoon Network and few other entertainment channels thrown in, in case you get bored watching the news.
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