Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a wingsuit.

Posted by oliland on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @07:50AM
from the news.sky.com dept.

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/app/liveTV/liveTv.html

Friends who are with him at the moment who are assembling the cardboard boxes which he will try to land in. It will be very interesting to see if he can pull it off!

Edit 1: Non-silverlight link - http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by oliland on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @07:57AM (#4012622)

Friends of mine are currently assembling the boxes that he will land in: http://imgur.com/iKwmX

Interview with Gary Connery and his wife: http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16233460

Unfortunately it's live from the house of commons at the moment, but a lot of skydivers will be watching with eager eyes to see if he can arrive at the landing area safely and uninjured!

Edit 1: Flash only link - http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

Edit 2: The jump has been rescheduled to 3pm GMT.

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by nodata on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:11AM (#4012656)

Watch Live: At 1pm...

"Install Microsoft Silverlight"

Guess I won't be watching live then.

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by oliland on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:15AM (#4012666)

This should work with Flash on Windows, but requires Flip4Mac on OSX: http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by MonkeyMarcel on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:13AM (#4012659)

Use Chrome...

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by nodata on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:21AM (#4012685)

I'm not going to yum install chrome just to watch a video. If they want me to watch they should support a format that the rest of the world already uses.

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by paulhauggis on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @10:21AM (#4013167)

The world has been using Silverlight for a long time.

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by nodata on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @12:51PM (#4013913)

The world has not.

What percentage of big name sites use Silverlight exclusively? Even Microsoft doesn't, and they wrote it!

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Re:Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a ... by antr on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:46AM (#4012753)

Good luck to Sky on making me install Silverlight

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