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"Yesterday we put questions to you concerning news media and the way in which its video services are being consumed on the Web. Most respondents to a poll told us it was friends who pointed them in the direction of content. Social networking to stay informed, in other words. That\u2019s good to hear! Still, there was the question of live video on sites like YouTube that didn\u2019t quite get the response I was expecting.\nThe option to view news feeds in real-time is something that interests me, and I gather at least a few of you feel the same. Which just so happens to bring into the spotlight today a different service with another name, this one being something we\u2019ve profiled before, and which is turning out to be a very notable alternative to TV-based broadcasts. It\u2019s called Livestation.\nIt won\u2019t wow you with a sterling design or slick package. And its attribution to Microsoft Research and a UK-based company called Skinkers Ltd., perhaps isn\u2019t something to proclaim loudly. But Livestation is without a doubt one of the most impressive collections of live television viewing for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. The reason being that the number of choices for users to freely consume at one moment or another is fairly large. We first mentioned this item last year, when it first debuted. And oh how it has grown since then.\n\nWant to access CNN? Go right ahead. CNN International is there, too. Plus FOX, Discovery, Bloomberg, NBC, ESPN, ITV, Sky News, BBC, France 24, Russia Today, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera English, CBC and others. Some options provide English, French, German, and Arabic language services as well. And the company just last week added partnerships for BBC Arabic, C-SPAN, Russia Today Arabic, France 24 Arabic, and Euronews German, French, and Arabic. Pretty remarkable, I\u2019ll say.\nGranted, this is all very news oriented, which may not whet the appetites of lots of prospective viewers. But the availability of these options enables some measure of consistency. To offer a much broader panoply of channels might detract from the experience, in a way. Regardless, if it\u2019s entertainment you seek, there are several options, including sports, music, and movie and documentary providers.\nIt\u2019s important to mention that browsing for content via the required software isn\u2019t necessarily the best route to take. The service\u2019s website itself is more amenable to discovering new items - at least when sized up against the Mac-compatible download option. But once you do manage to specify what it is you prefer to watch in your MyChannels column within the application itself, Livestation is something that, with the arrival of more and more streams, you\u2019ll likely often want to keep close at hand."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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