Buffering.. Buffering.. WTF.. It's 2007!!!

[brxndxn]

Wasn't it like.. 2000' when there was a picture making fun of Realplayer of their HQ sign with 'buffering...' placed on top of it?

I wanted to watch the racist couch video on cnn.com. So.. I click it and I'm forced to watch a stupid annoying Blackberry commercial. Then.. the next video plays 5 seconds, then says 'buffering..' and then stops doing anything for 2 minutes while I wait like an idiot.

When I gotta watch a stupid annoying commercial every time I click on a damn news clip, aren't I OWED a working video clip?

It's 2007.. shouldn't streaming video work by now?


Cliffs:
- You owe me $5. The post explains in irrefutable detail.

 

[imported_Mike]

silly noob, you think anything but a commercial playing is going on while the commercial is playing?

 

[Spineshank]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
Wasn't it like.. 2000' when there was a picture making fun of Realplayer of their HQ sign with 'buffering...' placed on top of it?

I wanted to watch the racist couch video on cnn.com. So.. I click it and I'm forced to watch a stupid annoying Blackberry commercial. Then.. the next video plays 5 seconds, then says 'buffering..' and then stops doing anything for 2 minutes while I wait like an idiot.

When I gotta watch a stupid annoying commercial every time I click on a damn news clip, aren't I OWED a working video clip?

It's 2007.. shouldn't streaming video work by now?


Cliffs:
- You owe me $5. The post explains in irrefutable detail.

Clicking it again once you clicked it once will skip the commercial.

 

[eplebnista]

If the video stream was the same now as it was then(low resolution), buffering would probably not occur.