Have a look at......

ian henden said:

http://www.cycling.tv/

'Please note this player is optimised for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Other browsers such as Netscape and Firefox will work but with limited
functionality.'

Now there's a blast from the past. However...

'Best performance can be obtained by installing the Gecko ActiveX Plug-in'

WTF?

It wants Windows Media Player 10 too. Eeeeeww.

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ian henden said:

http://www.cycling.tv/

'Please note this player is optimised for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Other browsers such as Netscape and Firefox will work but with limited
functionality.'

Now there's a blast from the past. However...

'Best performance can be obtained by installing the Gecko ActiveX
Plug-in'

WTF?

In other words, it doesn't work properly in Internet Exploder /unless/
you replace the rendering engine with Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.

URL: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm

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http://www.cycling.tv/

It took three minutes for the viewer to spring into action in Firefox and
I'm certainly unwilling to fork out the £19.99 to access the video
streams.

Not too impressed.

Dunno where you got your figures from.... it cost me ZILCH (on home PC, BB
via NTL); it took all of fifteen seconds or so including the "buffering"!

I offered it to you lot in absolutely good faith.... but then, I suppose,
cyclists are naturally predisposed to reject ANY facility provided on their
behalf....

Regards
IanH

I have been watching cycling.tv for over a year now and find it pretty good.

I just watch the free service over a broadband connection and I guess the
only slight irritation is the ads, but that's something afflicting not only
this service.

Paul

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"ian henden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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http://www.cycling.tv/

It took three minutes for the viewer to spring into action in Firefox and
I'm certainly unwilling to fork out the £19.99 to access the video
streams.

Not too impressed.

Mind you, I didn't go beyond the first screen.... a second visit to the site
and now I see where the £19.99 annual sub comes in!!

OTOH, surely you pay as much - or more? - on cycling magazines???

Regards

IanH

Paul came up with the following;:

Quoted message said:

I have been watching cycling.tv for over a year now and find it pretty
good.

I just watch the free service over a broadband connection and I guess the
only slight irritation is the ads, but that's something afflicting not
only this service.

*ding*

😉

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:34:38 GMT, "ian henden" <[email hidden]>

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"vernon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"ian henden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

http://www.cycling.tv/

It took three minutes for the viewer to spring into action in Firefox and
I'm certainly unwilling to fork out the £19.99 to access the video
streams.

Not too impressed.

Mind you, I didn't go beyond the first screen.... a second visit to the site
and now I see where the £19.99 annual sub comes in!!

OTOH, surely you pay as much - or more? - on cycling magazines???

Regards

IanH

Supposing we do pay the £20 what are the chances that the servers will
cope once the tdf hits the mountains?

Ian Blake said:

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:34:38 GMT, "ian henden" <[email hidden]>

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>http://www.cycling.tv/
>

It took three minutes for the viewer to spring into action in Firefox and
I'm certainly unwilling to fork out the £19.99 to access the video
streams.

Not too impressed.

Mind you, I didn't go beyond the first screen.... a second visit to the site
and now I see where the £19.99 annual sub comes in!!

OTOH, surely you pay as much - or more? - on cycling magazines???

Regards

IanH

Supposing we do pay the £20 what are the chances that the servers will
cope once the tdf hits the mountains?

They'll cope. Somewhere on the site, it says that Cycling.tv hasn't got
the TdF.

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They'll cope. Somewhere on the site, it says that Cycling.tv hasn't got
the TdF.

It is being covered on ITV3 according to the TVTimes.

No looked to see how much covereage - but something is there IF you have
digital or cable.

DaveB

ian henden said:

http://www.cycling.tv/

What got me (in the XC mountain biking) was the bikes cost around ?
7000 and each team had a full time mechanic and yet some of the brakes
still "squealed"

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ian henden said:

http://www.cycling.tv/

What got me (in the XC mountain biking) was the bikes cost around ?
7000 and each team had a full time mechanic and yet some of the brakes
still "squealed"

Why does this surprise you? The bikes are set up to win races, not to be
silent in use. Disk brakes generally do squeal, if there's any
contamination on them at all.

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Simon Brooke said:

Why does this surprise you? The bikes are set up to win races, not to
be silent in use. Disk brakes generally do squeal, if there's any
contamination on them at all.

Didn't look like discs to me. ICBW though.
Setting up Vs not to squeal is "merely" a matter of toe-in isn't it?
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soup said:

Simon Brooke said:

Why does this surprise you? The bikes are set up to win races, not
to be silent in use. Disk brakes generally do squeal, if there's any
contamination on them at all.

Didn't look like discs to me. ICBW though.
Setting up Vs not to squeal is "merely" a matter of toe-in isn't it?

Oops! Cancel the not looking like discs. Had another look at the bikes
from the 2004 World cup and the ones I saw all had discs.
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http://www.cycling.tv/

It took three minutes for the viewer to spring into action in Firefox and
I'm certainly unwilling to fork out the £19.99 to access the video streams.

Not too impressed.