Am I missing something here? This device doesn't work with any web based video -- Real or Windows Media -- Reuters, Fox, you name it.

The Foxnews video stutters to a halt even with 48MB of virtual memory from the card.

What's going on? Surely Web-based video is the killer app, right? I'd be mighty obliged if anyone could point me to a web-based video news source that works.

No, it dosn't. Only Winamp and Itunes(sorry, forget that name)files work...

Works with RealVideo from the BBC for me. It doesn't embed it in the browser, you double-tap on the video icon and it opens it in Video Player.

still only in low res though (and optimized view for bbc sites is still mucked up in the final os)

If only we had flash 7 or 8 we would have more video options. As for music, mp3 streaming is great.

Thanks, maybe we can somehow keep this thread going for any other fans of Web-based news video who comes across anything.

The conspiracy theorist in me suggests this is on purpose. Nokia doesn't want to adversely affect its relationship with the telcos who are seriously banking on TV over cell for growth. Nokia doesn't want to go head-to-head???

ABC just ran a trial of free streaming television for 3 days last week. You had to have Flash 8 to run it, which the 770 doesn't have.

Flash 8 was also used for the Volvo hunt (for the 'Volvo buried somewhere in the world' hunt) and Flash 8 apparently plays really long videos full screen, I was surprised.

That guy that developed the Formula 1 Racing client to watch Formula 1 TV on the 770, why couldn't that client be hacked to form a client for some or most of the streaming networks?

It was a great idea but too proprietary... let's open it up for mass-stream consumption, what say you?

There is also a movie conversion system called BINK by Radtools. If BINK could be modified so that the movies were executable on linux.... (linux' version of .exe files) then we could just double-click movies to have them play without the media player at all. Bink is quite awesome... almost every game company has gone to using it because it renders the videos to .exe formats and then they can't be ripped without having BINK and the license # to extract them, preserving the videos from piracy, etc... I am not concerned about piracy, what I like it that Bink encodes the CODEC right into the video so when you run the file, every BINK video runs on every computer, period. It's like the "PDF" of VIDEO/MOVIES!

Later.

hmm, it's almost like we need some kind of sniffer like you get in html for Flash/No Flash where if Flash 6 it plays and if Flash 7+ it converts the file to Flash 6. Way beyond my skill level though -- come on Nokia -- get serious, it's a great product but this device will get left behind and we'll all be handing over chunks of money to the telcos to watch TV. BTW I use a pocket Casio 2" over-air TV for news events-- hundred year old technology but it works if you don't mind swooshing noises and intermittently strangely shaped heads.