Hello Feedroom, Goodbye Narrowband

A practical Broadband application

[cyril kearney]

While some of us are still worrying about the users that have low speed Internet connections, more and more are moving to Broadband connections like cable.

A visit to Feedroom will give you a look at Interactive TV in a very interesting format.
[feedroom.com...]

[NFFC]

I just get a blank page?

[abertone]

It worked great for me.

[mivox]

PLEASE NOTE:
The FeedRoom does not fully support the
Macintosh, Unix or Linux operating systems,
nor the AOL 4 and 5 browsers, or Netscape 6.

::snort:: I didn't bother to look beyond that bit of narrowmindedness.

Hehe... I'll take broadminded narrowband over narrowminded broadband any day.

[bobriggs]

Need to add opera 5.12 to that list. On my computer, it just keeps going back to the same page: 'The FeedRoom is not optimized for your
machine's operating system.'

However, I was able to listen (although it came in choppy) in on IE6 on narrowband and could hear some of the feed here and there. If I were on broadband, I think it would be a really cool site.

But the site is up-front, letting you know you're not gonna make it unless you have MSIE and broadband.

[cyril kearney]

mivox says: "::snort:: I didn't bother to look beyond that bit of narrowmindedness. "

How does a experimental site that is trying to pioneer a new technoloogy get called narrow-minded for not supporting obsolete browsers and browsers with almost no market share which can't display the new technology.

Narrow-mindedness is marked by or reflective of narrow interests and sympathies. When a company plays to the browers that the overwhelming majority of web users are using they can hardly be cast as being narrow-minded.

You got to the door but wouldn't look in, so we'll never know whether you thought it good or not.

[rcjordan]

>letting you know you're not gonna make it unless you have MSIE and broadband.
>
And Flash.

[Tapolyai]

There is an other site www.now.com that does similar real-time news but more sports/X-Gen oriented style. NOW broadcasts every 6 hour their news on the web site, simultaniously as they broadcast it on a Hong Kong satellite channel. It is a bandwidth hog, to say the least.

(^{Disclaimer: my real employer owns NOW})