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NY1NewsNY1 News | http://www.ny1.com Background Information The website was launched on October 1, 1996, and redesigned in September of 1999 when Time Warner Cable launched Road Runner, its high-speed cable modem service, in New York City. The site has been recognized as the best news website in the region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, which awarded NY1.com the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2003. Today NY1.com boasts a searchable text and video archive, a PDA news feed, live audio streaming, and more than 50,000 Real Media video clips dating back to 1999. Comments You can consider the online contents as the archives of NY1 News (channel number one of Time Warner Cable). The contents on the site are arranged by categories such as Boroughs, NY Living and Sports with the front page listed with the current updates and contents (they used the name “top stories”. And under each of these big categories, there are subcategories. For example, under NY1 Living (big category), it has a full technology section with many and many different pieces of stories. Each story (content) is composed of some text and a video clip that they are exactly the same as you seen on TV. Therefore the length of the each video varies and that depends on the actual report on TV broadcast. They offer two video options, dial up (56kps) and broadband (225kps) and one format, Real Media. As mentioned earlier, the online contents act like a big archive for NY1 News, I found this way especially helpful when I wanted know more about the story (or news) that they reported on TV which then I could just go straight online to their site then followed by a Google search for specific information of my own interest, that’s pretty handy. And NY1 News did a very good job when they tried to refer people to other website for information, they posted the exact URL on screen during the show. Dislike: I am not sure why they use Real Media, I think it’s because they started their website in early years and that was the most promising technology at the time before flash came along in the recent two years. It happened quite often to me that there was a lack time between the picture and the sounds, I am not sure if it is because of my connection. But I have no problem of watching videos online with Flash Player (or Flash Media Streaming). The connection usually got better after you play one to two videos. So it’s like after the first two initial plays, the quality of the video (both picture and sounds) will become better. The other thing about the Real Media Player is that, depends on which computer I use, sometimes the video will show immediately after my click, sometimes it just downloaded an icon onto my desktop then I have to close my browser and click again to play the video, that’s sick. |