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Archive through July 09, 2002
Lurknomore | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 09:28 am     Hi all (and boy am I glad to be back following a reformat from HELL). I was just over at the Real site and they have formally announced they are partnering with CBS and BB, and we can either pay a one time fee of $24.95 for the season of BB or $9.95 per month. Here is the URL http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2002/bigbrother.html Hope the new thread was OK Ryn but that other info one was so buried and so big..and this just seemed well SOOOO important LOL. Can't believe no one beat me to posting it. Now I must return to my 3 day hell and load more programs back on my blasted computer. |
Ryn | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 09:33 am     Thats ok Lurk, I will make sure it gets mentioned there as well. |
Treasure | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 09:34 am     I already signed up for the free two week trial, then $9.95 a month. Seems like a better bargain, being that I'll have tons of other content to view/listen to, what with those inevitable switchovers to the Front Door Cam. |
Iceprincess | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 09:36 am     Speaking of the good old Front Door Cam...
Quote:To preserve the drama for BIG BROTHER 3 television viewers, CBS may block or delay the webcast for a limited number of real-time events that transpire in the house.
Sounds like they are actually planning it this time. I think I am like you Treasure, I will keep the $9.95 a month. That way I can switch over to something during the downtimes. |
Ryn | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 09:41 am     I think I may go with the 24.95 option.... because that way they can't charge me when I forget to cancel |
Shadowkat | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:01 am     From the Realnetworks link above it says: "Effective July 10, fans may view the entire three-month broadcast run of BIG BROTHER 3 on the official CBS Big Brother site for a one-time fee of $24.95, or they may choose to subscribe to RealOne SuperPass for $9.95 per month which will now feature the BIG BROTHER 3 season, as well as exclusive RealNetworks' news, sports and entertainment programming. " It sounds like to get the $24.95 option you have to sign up for it through the CBS website, however there's no link on the website as of yet, unless we have to wait until tomorrow to sign up for it...kind of confusing... |
Karuuna | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:03 am     Shadow - there's also a "new sign-up" deal at Real.com for $24.85 for 3 months, that would get you ALL the SuperPass programming, as well as BB. |
Lurknomore | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:06 am     I'm on the phone with Real now. Wait till you all hear this (and everyone else BE CAREFUL it didn't happen to you). I just downloaded that new terrible RealOne Player (I love the old Real Jukebox and can't run it with this one). Anyways, they told me I still have an account. Last year after BB I cancelled not once but TWICE, but they still were billing me. I didn't notice due to putting a ton of stuff on cc autopay while a close relative was ill and dying. So I just called, I explained I cancelled TWICE, they saw I never used it, and are giving me full credit. But the rest is hysterical. They had NO clue about the $24.95 special, I had to send them to THEIR site. She checked and said it won't be available till tomorrow, so I couldn't even sign up today. The fun continues.... |
Karuuna | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:06 am     Here's the deal - 14 days free, and then a quarterly fee of $24.85... Trial terms and conditions The free trial includes: RealOne Player Plus, our newest premium Player, now with TurboPlayª Amazing audio and brilliant full-screen video 24/7 exclusive access to CNN.com, ABCNEWS.com, E!, FOXSports.com & more To avoid the quarterly $24.85 RealOne SuperPass membership fee after your trial has expired, just call to cancel any time within the 14 day trial period. If you decide to cancel after the 14-day trial, you'll still be able to use the basic Player features Here's the link: http://www.real.com/realone/ |
Cinders | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:30 am     Hi all, I'm thinking of getting the 24.95 deal, I already have realplayer and went to download the free realone thingy and it was going to take a 1/2hr. to download. What I want to know first is if anybody has had problems with it. I've heard about pc's freezing up with realone and all sorts of problems. If that's the case then I'll pass on the live feeds and just read them here on the boards. Any comments?? |
Delilah | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:40 am     Wow what a turn of events, and they waited until the day before the show when we are all salivating for BB. I also signed up yesterday for the superpass so I am not sure what to do now. I think I will stick with it because I can also watch some news or music videos while we're on FOTH.... I guess those of us who signed up for the free trial, have two weeks to decide whether or not to switch to the $24.95 deal (up $5 from last year to pay for all the lawsuits no doubt LOL) Oh wait a minute, After the 14 day free trial it is still $24.95 for three months? So why should we pay the $24.95 now? I think I will reload the player just in case (just plug in my password again) the deal wasn't "available" yesterday. Although I like getting somthing for free, maybe this will prove more of a hassle. I mean who can we trust - Real or CBS? Neither LOL. I won't forget to cancel either, can't believe they were still charging you Lurk, that is ridiculous. Thank goodness you got a refund. I am sorry to hear about your PC, I have reformatted mine four times and it is no easy task. Thanks for all the great info guys and have a great day!  |
Delilah | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:51 am     Cinders, up until yesterday, I had the free realone player and I loved it. I used it to watch clips, animation, videos etc... but most importantly to burn CDs. I look at it this way, if I want to watch news, sports, E! etc... I just turn around and switch on my TV so why should I pay for a player? The only reason I have to pay for it now is for BB. If it was taking 1/2 hour to load is that because you have a dial up? You could try downloading it, trying it out and you can always uninstall it if you don't like it. I have been very happy with mine and didn't have to pay for it.  |
Lurknomore | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 12:10 pm     You know what gets me Delilah? I amazingly didn't forget to cancel and they STILL charged me. The only saving grace is they gave me a full refund with no hassle (and I was prepared to rant and rave BIG TIME if necessary). It was actually a cute conversation. The girl I talked to had never seen BB but has been getting calls for it all day. She said some folks act like it's opium LOLOL. We all wouldn't know ANYTHING about that here would we?!?!?! She spoke to one lady whose son and some other family member said they would move out if she didn't get it. And some other one was rearranging the furniture so the sleeper sofa was near the computer (I actually found this a brilliant idea LOL). I confirmed how addictive it is. As for my reformat I have BB to thank for pushing me to it...I think I would have stalled until it no longer was a "planned" reformat. But with BB starting, no sounds and intermittent messed up video, well it just HAD to be done. Can't believe I had to do it 3 damn times for it to properly work. Sigh. Only good thing is I figured out how to fix stuff the techs couldn't...made me feel comfy with my "geek goddess" status or rather I hope the BB live program works again this year...I hate not having the video in one stand alone box, so I can be doing other stuff at the puter. I wish Real would stop making "improvements" before they kill a good program. |
Angelbleu | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 12:15 pm     What really makes me mad is last year I was able to use Real Player to see BB in other countries like the UK.....I tried to do that with this one and you have to pay additional money for the RealOne European version.....forget that!! |
Jan | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 12:51 pm     Lurk, what is the number to call the Real.com people? |
Delilah | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 12:58 pm     Lurk, that was a great post! The folks at real.com must think we are nuts! I wish there was a BB rehab for when it was over. Then again, last years HGs gave us as much to talk about after the show as they did on the show! Check out the articles and interviews thread I just started, it is amazing how forgiving and seemingly "nice" they seem now over a year later... As far as your reformat goes, I just reformatted mine again about a month ago, updated my Norton and installed Gateway GoBack - it is a great feature which if you encounter a problem, it allows you to revert your hard drive back to a safe time (say 24 hours before the problem arose) and hopefully avoid the reformat. I also have about 1000 songs downloaded (www.winmx.com) so I make sure to back everything up on a CD as often as possible. The Norton windoc and diskdoc helps too, I can fix any problems before they run rampant. I have had so many viruses and crashes but one thing I couldn't live without is the Norton Security Professional. It rocks!! Anyway, I can't believe you canceled twice and they were still charging you! I bet they didn't want to admit their mistake either. At least you got all your money back, that is a relief. My PC is working great for the first time in a long time and I really hope I don't encounter any problems before BB starts. Tonight I am going to run the maintenance Wizard and the defragment and even get my windex out to make sure the puter is all clean and ready to go!!! Can't wait, bring it Awwwwnnnnn!!!!  |
Lurknomore | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 01:12 pm     Jan, here is the phone info: Customer Service for RealOne Player, RealPlayer Plus, and RealJukebox Plus is available in English and Spanish by phone in North America at 1-888-768-3248 or 206-674-2650. Customer Service for RealArcade and Games is available in English and Spanish at 1-866-745-7636. Monday - Friday, 5:00 am to 7:30 pm - Pacific Time Saturday - Sunday, 7:30 am to 7:30 pm - Pacific Time Delilah I have a Gateway too and I was soooo past GoBack it wasn't even funny. Hardly any of my utilities were running. I hadn't been able to run scandisk or defrag for MONTHS. Pretty much my Windows were partially corrupted so it was a slow decline. I have a few gig of music myself. I need to put on CD but I have most on my slave drive (hard drives are so cheap it's great to keep a second one on), and they have made the journey safe and sound. Is your Nortons running ok? I got the new McAfees and it has been nothing but hell...I'm waiting to hear back from their grand poohbah tech cause their repair instructions aren't working ACK. |
Jan | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 01:14 pm     Thanks muchly, Lurk. Good luck with your computer |
Donut | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 01:24 pm     thanks guys! i have received some nice email responses from realplayer yesterday and today,but they never mentioned the 2495! they just said free for 14 days and then if you dont cancel they will charge 995 a mo and they didnt know yet what cbs might do. they said you could get UK for 9.99 pounds a mo and 2 weeks free as well for real player europe to watch the uk feeds. Anyone gonna watch 2 weeks of brit feeds for free? or is that just overload??? btw, i emailed cbs when i emailed realplayer and they never got back to me.... |
Delilah | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 01:25 pm     Lurk, wow we sound so much alike! I had the same probs - couldn't run any utilites for months, a million error messages and no audio. My Norton had expired and I couldn't run anything because it kept saying my hard drive was locked by an unknown disk utility. Since the reformat, so far so good, plus I got rid of a ton of stuff that was installed that I never used and was taking up space. I have a Pentium 3 and I have had Gateways for 10 years now. We get a new one every two years or so, pass the old one to the kids and hubby buys them thru his office pre-tax. Hubby has McAfee at his office and hates it, I love this new Norton, it has a firewall, ad blocking plus anti virus and all the utilites. I have a RW cd rom drive also and I could try copying it for you if you like, it mightn't work though because then everyone would be doing it, I guess. I back up all my music (that was the one thing I would have been angry about if I had lost) but during the reformat, lost my addy book and all my bookmarks. I am slowly building them up again. A friend of mine just bought an MP3 player and I looked at it - it seems great. 10 gigs, it is like a hard drive and you can put all your music on there and use it as a walk man, cool! I have stopped using zip disks and now back up everything on the internal RW drive, it holds so much more. Computers are great when they work but it drives me INSANE when I have a computer prob!! Sorry mods for making this a tech post, I hope you don't mind!  |
Mygetaway | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 02:22 pm     OK... Here's another question. From Real One Site Offer/News Release: Effective July 10, fans may view the entire three-month broadcast run of BIG BROTHER 3 on the official CBS Big Brother site for a one-time fee of $24.95, or they may choose to subscribe to RealOne SuperPass for $9.95 per month which will now feature the BIG BROTHER 3 season, as well as exclusive RealNetworks' news, sports and entertainment programming.} So, if you buy the 24.95 package, can you only view it with the CBS pop up media player, that comes up when playing video footage on their pages? Would that mean we couldn't resize it, and "tweak" it, etc. like you can if you have the Super Pass version? Just wondering...  |
Ryanc2002 | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 03:17 pm     Mygetaway - I think you're gonna get the popup media either way. When you go to BB3 on Superpass that will come up. There are ways around that, none that I can name off the top of my head, mind you. ;-) |
C1mag | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 03:23 pm     I wanted to address something that Ice mentioned and that was the aknowledgement by BB that they would reserve showing some events live for suspense. I'm pretty sure what they are referring to is the challenges and when they go live for the shows which include nomination and eviction days. With the live feeds, although we don't know the details of what happens durring those events we imediately know the results before they air them. Everything that goes on while they cut to the front door is talked about when they break back in so you really aren't missing much. Rarely do they cut to the front door right in the middle of something real juicy. If anything, they live for those moments so that us fulltime viewers can spread the word about whats going on. I really do advocate getting the player and watching it live if you can, even if you get the ocassional front door cam. For less than the cost of going out just for one evening you get three months of some pretty good stuff. The edited TV version of the show gives you no clue who these people really are or whats really going on in the house. I consider the televised portion of this game to be very boring and many times misleading. The best moments on this show usually happen durring the night and many of these things cannot be seen on TV and when they do edit them in it doesn't do the moment justice. I watched it last year with a 56K connection and had very few problems. Choppy image but the audio was great. This year I've got broadband so I'm pumped for some better video. I wouldn't be a fan of this show if it weren't for the live feeds. The edited version on TV just doesn't do this show justice. I'm always happy to help out with the live feed posts for those that don't have it live, but let me say this now... " If you could just see what I'm typing about right now" p.s. This is by far the best board for all your BB action! Glad to see so many back for another run! |
Cinders | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 03:25 pm     Delilah I did upgrade to the free realone and have tried it out and it's cool. When we sign up for the 24.95 deal do we have to upgrade to the realone plus? Can't wait for the live feeds to start!! I have a gateway also and the back-up program you talked about,though I haven't had to use it yet. I just love my gateway, it's the third one I've had! |
Crazykids | Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 03:40 pm     Is there a time limit to getting the 24.95 deal? |
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