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Don’t bother with Catchup TV

Catch-up TVLast week I mentioned that TVB Pearl has introduced a service for watching TV shows (well, one particular show) online. 

So I had to try it out, but I have to say that I was totally underwhelmed by the experience.  The show plays on a tiny embedded screen surrounded by black bars (it’s the plane being lifted out of the sea), and if you expand it to a full screen it is horribly blurry.

The show is divided into 4 segments, and each one starts with an advert.  The first time I watched it, the programme started and then the advert appeared after a few seconds, which is rather annoying.

It’ll never catch on, this Internet TV business.

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    weenie

    Internet tv is pretty big in the UK now, in particular BBC’s iplayer, which allows you to watch programmes you’ve missed for free, either online or via download. The programmes are only available for like a week or so after they’ve been shown on tv.

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