Why can't I watch ChessTV?

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3rd September 2009, 06:04pm
#1
by TheGrobe
Calgary Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 4282

I click and see a schedule but no TV... am I missing something blindingly obvious?

 

Schedule: (all times in PDT, -0700 UTC)

 

Thursday, Sept 3, 6pm PDT
LIVE: Game Analysis - w/ IM David Pruess

Tuesday, Sept 7, 6pm PDT
LIVE: The State of Chess.com - w/ Erik

Thursday, Sept 10, 5pm PDT
LIVE: Game Analysis - w/ IM David Pruess

3rd September 2009, 06:13pm
#2
by batgirl
NC United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 4342

Did you eat all your broccoli?

3rd September 2009, 06:17pm
#3
by TheGrobe
Calgary Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 4282

I did, I was also warned not to sit to close to ChessTV or I might go blind.  I'm all set, but I just can't watch it.

(I did, however, make a face when I was a kid and it stayed that way -- incidentally, if there's a nice girl out there who went blind from sitting too close to the TV...).

3rd September 2009, 06:24pm
#4
by sstteevveenn
Wales United Kingdom
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 1628

Doesn't work for me either in firefox 3.  It's viewable in ie tab but the menus go under the video so it's not perfect. 

3rd September 2009, 06:24pm
#5
by dsarkar
United States
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 7485

TheGrobe,

Do you have the recent version of Flash Player properly installed? Check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

3rd September 2009, 06:57pm
#6
by TheGrobe
Calgary Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 4282

Wonderful:  I did not have the most recent version of Flash, and now that I tried to install it I don't have Firefox anymore either.  Seriously, it tanked my Firefox install and I'm stuck with IE...

Go figure, ChessTV works in IE though.

Off to try and fix Firefox....

3rd September 2009, 07:16pm
#7
by Nytik
Southampton United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 4519

If anyone watches a rerun of the latest episode, they will now hear David give a sigh and say "Oh, Nytik..." and no-one will have any idea what that was for. This is the problem with watching On Demand! Cool 

3rd September 2009, 07:45pm
#8
by TheGrobe
Calgary Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 4282

I had to my help-desk triage process to fix Firefox:

  1. Reboot
  2. Reinstall
  3. Replace

Thankfully I only had to go to step 2.  Now, of course, there's no broadcast for me to test the Flash upgrade.  Is there a place where re-runs actually can be watched on demand so I can test it?

3rd September 2009, 08:06pm
#9
by sstteevveenn
Wales United Kingdom
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 1628

yeah same place I think.  during the broadcast there was an on demand button in the lower left of the screen which brought up a menu or something. 

haha Nytik what was that for?  My fave was that Rb7 move.  The annotation was almost chessmaster-esque.

5th September 2009, 07:38am
#10
by Lord-Chaos
Devon England
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 1959

wheres the link to chess TV? im so far behind the times =(.

 

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