After a few months of testing we are pleased to announce that our first premium channel, AL Jazeera English, is available on our website here

http://www.livestation.com/products/32-al_jazeera_english_hq

What is it all about? Why bother paying some money for it?

Here are a few important reasons:

1. You get 2 choices of quality/stream speed to suit your network conditions

2. The high speed stream (800kbps) is in Standard Definition (SD) so that you can watch it on a big plasma and it looks like TV

3. The low speed stream is optimised to work on old connections as it’s using 220kbps making it usable on a basic ADSL line (256kbps). This should prove handy if you are trying to watch Al Jazeera from an Internet cafe’ in a remote part of the world

4. The stream use Flash technology which means you can enjoy them on the website as well as on our desktop player (in the next release due shortly)

5. The streams are delivered via a global content distribution network (CDN) meaning that the quality of service is much higher and problems with stream interruptions should be a lot less likely.

Furthermore, if you buy a premium channel on Livestation you will also help us carrying on supporting free channels like the Democratic Voice of Burma, the United Nation High Commisionner for Refugees while also keeping the basic free service going.

Give it a go as you have a 3 days free trial with no commitment.

As always, let us know what you think.