[ale] OT: GT on ESPN360.com, but not via Comcast. ;(

[Jim Popovitch]

...and MS is buying Move, which means this situation will get worse
before better. ;-)



On 8/26/08, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at clayton.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:17:56PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> > Ok tech fans,  (ie.  That includes both Ga Tech fans and Technology
>> > fans!!)
>> >
>> > The GT game Thursday is on ESPN360.com.  (Yes its a website, not a tv
>> > channel.)
>> >
>> > I'm not familiar with it, but apparently the ISP is supposed to
>> > subscribe and then let end-users watch for free.
>> >
>> > Comcast does not subscribe, so I can't watch the game?
>> >
>> > I assume someone has figured out a way around this?
>>
>> You're probably wasting your time as I see a good news/bad news message
>> when I go to that page:
>>
>> The good news:
>>
>>
>> Congratulations! Your high speed internet service provider, AT&T,
>> carries ESPN360.com.
>>
>> The bad news:
>>
>> Windows 2000/XP/Vista - Internet Explorer, Firefox
>> Mac - Firefox, Safari
>
> Google is of course your friend. ESPN360.com uses the Move Networks player.
> The player works with Windows Firefox under Wine. A 30 second tutorial can
> be found here:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=679165&highlight=abc.com+streaming
>
> Thanks for the other post showing that .edus can get it. I'll see about
> using ssh to forward packets.
>
> BAJ
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