Watching the news on the net.

So, the recent trend for news channels to broadcast on the net continues. The most recent addition is BBC News 24, which can now be watched live on the net. My only concern is that the bandwidth stream being allocated for both video and audio is only 34kbps!

When we have broadband services that start at 2mbps, going up to around 16mbps, a 34kbps stream seems to be either a cost cutting measure, or just plain silly. 34kbps videos are not very watchable and the audio is pretty crappy. Give it at least 100kbps. The video would be better but certainly not special, but it would be at least watchable, and it would be possible to at least listen to it, if you happened to be doing something else.

At least RTE give their live news video at least 225kbps!