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Sky News goes free
theregister.co.uk ^ | Oct 14, 2009 | John Oates

Posted on 10/19/2009 7:43:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Sky News is now streaming its TV channel for free over its website 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Despite Rupert Murdoch's mumblings about charging for all online content, the site is free - for now at least. Murdoch said yesterday that it was time for aggregators and search engines must start paying for news content - a slight refinement on previous announcements which seemed to want to get some money out of the readers.

(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: conservatism; internet; iptv; murdoch; news; skynews; streaming; tech
Looks like you need to install Silverlight to use it.

For those more tech-savvy than myself, exaclty what is Silverlight and should I bother install it or not?

Sky News

1 posted on 10/19/2009 7:43:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: rockabyebaby

Maybe FoxNews will be next!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 10/19/2009 7:45:20 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: smokingfrog

COOLLLL


3 posted on 10/19/2009 7:46:14 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: smokingfrog

silverlight is microsoft version of adobe flash, that we use to watch videos on youtube


4 posted on 10/19/2009 7:49:25 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: 4rcane

What else is it good for?


5 posted on 10/19/2009 7:50:27 PM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: smokingfrog

Silverlight is Microsoft’s direct challenger to Flash (which powers YouTube and countless other sites that serve up animations, audio, video, or all of the above).

It is safe to install/use it.

Microsoft bashers may insert anti-MS japes here.

For better or worse Sky is restricting the feed based on the end-user’s location, i.e., users outside the British Isles will get the international feed.


6 posted on 10/19/2009 7:51:01 PM PDT by relictele
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To: smokingfrog

play media, online games etc, pretty much what adobe flash can do. Silverlight is new and not as popular as flash though. Not sure which is better, but I’m getting a bit annoyed with flash because of its memory hog and its taking them forever to fix


7 posted on 10/19/2009 7:52:19 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: smokingfrog

I’d love to see IPTV be the next wave of conservative media.


8 posted on 10/20/2009 2:20:13 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Those who have never failed work for those of us who have. - Henry Ford)
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