U.S Viewers: Meetup To Demand Al Jazeera English On Your TV - Feb 10 2011

[Turborama]

http://www.meetup.com/AJE/">



Lots of comments coming in about this on this site...

http://english.aljazeera.net/demandaljazeera/">

Their excellent "I Want AJE" site is still active, too: http://iwantaje.com /

Please help keep this kicked if you want to help spread the word...

In the meantime....

This is what Livestation's free standalone player looks like (as you can see, it doesn't take up much bandwidth)...



The player can be downloaded here (about 24MB & no spyware or adware): http://www.livestation.com/downloads

And watched without the player here (less stable): http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al-jazeera-english-english

Also, they do upload all their excellent http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#g/p">shows, documentaries & http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#g/u">news reports to YouTube and http://english.aljazeera.net/video/">their website.

[sabrina 1]

1. Great, thank you. I will check if their are any meet-ups near me.

I have already written to our cable provider to ask that they include Al Jazeera in our lineup.

:kick:

[Turborama]

2. Hi Sabrina!

How's it going? :hi:

Have you tried out the Livestation player yet? I knew about it ages ago but since I've had AJE on TV I totally forgot about it until now. It obviously doesn't compare to actually having it on TV but it is much better than the stream they provide on their website.

Thanks for the kick!

[sabrina 1]

3. I did check it out, Turborama ~

And I signed up for it. I have to pay a fee of approx $5.00 a month, which was a surprise, but they are worth it.

Do you have to pay where you are? I don't mind at all, they deserve the help and it's so little for what you get compared to what we pay for cable and the garbage that passes for news here.

[Turborama]

5. You only have to pay for the premium, don't you? If you download the standalone player it's free...

Is that what happened when you downloaded the player or were playing it streaming from their site?

The premium does give you HD TV quality viewage, though.

[sabrina 1]

6. I must have accidentally downloaded the premium as I was led

to a page asking me to sign up and telling me what it would cost. So, I signed up.

[Turborama]

7. Oh, I'm sorry. I should have made it clearer in the OP & they should make it more obvious

That these images for different platforms are the free ones.



http://www.livestation.com/downloads

This is the premium button and it is a better quality audio/video and the full screen is in HD, which the free one isn't.

Upgrade to Livestation Pro
Get the full Livestation experience with Livestation Pro. More features, better streaming and no advertising.

It's an easy enough mistake to make and can be easily rectified in a month if you want to try out the free version to compare the two.

Thanks for letting me know, it's too late for me to edit the OP but I've tried to make it clearer here and will make sure I add those images above next time I post about it. :blush:

[sabrina 1]

9. Okay, thanks. I don't mind donating to them though, they do such

great work. But, I will check out the free buttons now.

[Turborama]

10. I love your espirit des corps and I agree...

...if it didn't come as part of my satellite package and was a la carte I'd definitely pay extra.

BTW have you seen this excellent piece by one of my favorite presenters of theirs, yet? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x358492

I'm going to crash soon, but please feel free to PM me anything you post while I'm away.

:hi:

[sabrina 1]

4. Btw, what do you think of this 'breaking news'?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x358316

It does come from Egypt TV but it's also being reported by CNN.

[Turborama]

8. Kick for the morning crew....

:kick: