I expected our stats would be way up this morning following the release of the Livestation Mac client a couple of days ago, but 30 downloads a minute had me choking on my cornflakes. And I could have fried my eggs on the servers which were getting hot under the cover with almost 10,000 downloads in the past 24 hours.

Seems the bloggers had got hold of our news release and been busy overnight, which resulted in those nice people at Apple putting us on their main downloads page. Nice endorsement, suggesting that they feel Livestation is safe to download and a neat bit of kit.

Some interesting feedback comments, both good and bad, which is great because we are still in Beta with improvements and enhancements about to be released.

A positive note came from Denmark. “Your service and program for Mac OS X leopard is nothing short but brilliant. Fast, reliable, excellent visuals, controls and most importantly – no-fuss, always working, high quality TV feeds. Thumbs up!”

And some letting us know that some people are having problems, “Some high-quality channels don’t play on my MacBook Pro (Core2Duo 2.4GHz with 2GB of RAM, Leopard 10.5.4) at all. Although it uses almost all my bandwidth (ADSL – 600kbps downstream), only the very beginning of the video plays, then the audio starts to cut out and in, and finally everything stops, but it continues to use my bandwidth… It would be nice if the video/audio quality decrease when there isn’t bandwidth enough to play the stream, so users with slower connection around the globe could still watch the programs. It’s a great product, keep it up! ”.

It’s now approaching lunchtime and our site is creaking a bit as more and more people fire up their Livestation players.

Just the sort of problem we enjoy tackling.

Matteo Berlucchi
CEO, Livestation