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Livestation launches NEW beta 1.0.76.7

Posted by Mihai Asmanow on 21 June 2008 - 23:19 · 5 comments & 6916 views

Livestation is a free software application that provides a range of live news television channels and radio stations that can be received on a computer anywhere with a basic broadband connection. You can watch television on your desktop, or on your laptop, at home, at work, on the move, or in a hotel room, provided you have a broadband internet connection or wireless access.

Livestation allows you to receive live TV and radio news from the world’s leading broadcasters on your PC, via a multi-channel interactive application on the desktop giving you a unique window on the world’s news. You can watch Livestation full screen or minimised to fit in the corner of your screen, enabling you to carry on with other tasks while also keeping an eye on the news. You can flick between channels, just as you would on your TV set.

Livestation is legal, safe, free and comes with no strings attached.

Current features include:

- High quality live audio and video
- Channel selection and programme guide
- Programme information overlay
- Ability to scale player window from 50% to 200%
- Always on top window setting
- Full screen playback option
- Volume control and mute.

Other functions, including support for subtitles and audio description, and many other interactive features, will be added in future releases.

What's new in Livestation 1.0.76.7:

- Personalise your player with your own channels(stream bookmarks).
- Bookmark your own channels, tag them, search for them
- Watch your own channels in Livestation.
- Twitter integration [view full changelog]

Minimum requirements:

* Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Vista
* Internet Explorer 6+
* 1.5 Ghz processor
* A network of at least 800 kbps.
* Microsoft Silverlight
* Free registration: Publisher's website

Notes: This is a pre-release version of the Livestation player which may not include all the final features and may have faults or flaws. Please only install and use this version of the Livestation player if you are comfortable using pre-release software.

Livestation is available for download at this address

Link: Livestation Home Page

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#1 Posted by El Sid on 22 Jun 2008 - 10:29: Does this version of Livestation have more than just news channels for UK users?

I never used Livestation because the versions that I've had only have news channels here in the UK, and well... I'm on the internet anyway.

#2 Posted by johnathonm on 22 Jun 2008 - 21:04: stupid.... 3 channels.

#3 Posted by Avangelon on 23 Jun 2008 - 05:01: It looks like it has a lot of potential.... But it only has 3 channels. All News channels might I add.

Al Jazeera
France 24
Russia Today

Yeah, not so interested in watching other people's news.

#4 Posted by magik on 24 Jun 2008 - 12:04: When they start touting features like this:

- Ability to scale player window from 50% to 200%
- Always on top window setting
- Full screen playback option
- Volume control and mute.

You know it's crap.

#5 Posted by Naveen on 12 Jul 2008 - 11:22: Actually it's rather good as it happens. Not sure about the pic quality though. Shouldnt we all be using h.264 now for this stuff?

... like my livevideo vids are on the livevideo.com site (/zoea .... see my sig) ......

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