Thread: Watch the New Year's eve Time Square coverage live on your tablet
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2009-01-01 , 08:33
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Yep.. once the countdown finished and the live video stream kicked in, it was barely worth watching. Flash on the tablet just isn't up to it. Would have probably been a WHOLE lot more watchable if I could have had the direct address to the video stream and maybe fed that address to mplayer to watch much more smoothly.

Damn you, Adobe. You tempt me, then you test me so.
I'm sure flash is fine... The tablets hardware can't handle it. It never could, and I doubt it ever will.

I don't think it was ever intended to. My thinking is; your only as good as your connection. 3 or 4 years ago, during the tablets inception, 3g or even 2g connections were not common place. The hardware didn't have to handle high speed video other than via wifi.


I mean, if your sitting at home and comparing it to your desktop... use the dang desktop to view what you want. However, if you are out on the street and want to pull up something for a quick reference, compare it to how long it would take, and the PITA it would be, to fire up a laptop.

Not many people can tell you what's happening on the corner of 6th ave @ 42nd St. right now, with out leaving their bar stool on Carmine St...

I can.

BTW, the attached HTM has the direct addy's in it for most public streaming and still cams in NYC. View the source and wander around in it and the directories it hrefs.
 

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