Ewan takes a look at a new 'TV' system for Symbian smartphones, 'Television', from digital media specialists Makayama. The lawyer in him wants to take the app to task for a misleading name and the consumer in him wants to take it to task for some channel errors and outdate content. But, overall, it's a competent video on demand applet that largely delivers what it (almost) says on the tin...
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www.livestation.com uses flash which the N900 supports, not sure about S60 5th if I remember correctly it didn't work but the N900 works nicely.. And in the N900 when you go to full screen you can use the volume rocker to control the volume, outside of fullscreen mode i.e. normal page with Flash embedded the volume rocker acts as a page magnifier or you just use the clockwise/anti-clockwise swirling motion, anyways it works.
And now I could finish with "try doing that on an iPhone" i.e it ain't Flashy enough except for the fact that the offer a native iPhone app to do the samething, where the Maemo or Symbian apps to do the same? Ouch! 😊
Does tvcatchup.com work on S60 5th? It works on iPhone by transfering a video stream from the browser to the YouTube player (H.264 player). I presume it could work equally with Real Player which also plays H.264 but I can't make it work on my N95.
For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, tvcatchup gives realtime streaming Freeview over wifi or 3G. The pc version of the webpage also has a programme guide!
I just played a bit with my n5800xm and i try the link www.livestation.com using SkyFire and it works charming instantly the same wot you see on winXPpro using just EDGE GPRS connection.