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Countrymeadow

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 11:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Think about it. Everyone seems to be scrambling around trying to find the best deal for real player. Well, as far as i'm concerned i get my money's worth during 1 fight in that house. Remember last year? You can't tell me that spending just 9.95 per month for entertainment like this 24/7 is excessive. Give it a rest peeps!

Espen

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Like Delilah said, check the Real pricing thread.. If you are still in your 14 day free trial period, they will offer you another 30 days free if you tell them others have been offered this (see that thread for phone number).. This means virtually all BB for just 9.95! (assuming its done by the 24th of sep..)

Floresmama

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Can anyone confirm for me that when you click on the BB3 link a real player you go no where or you get an error page.

That is what I am getting and I am afraid that when they finally start up the live feeds at 6:00 BBT that I will have some problem that has to be resolved.

I am hoping to get all resolved before that time.

Mygetaway

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Floresmama..
Don't worry.. There is no page because it hasn't started yet.
I clicked on the link for the heck of it and the same thing happened.
If it happens at 6 pm PT then we may have to wait until 9pm PT for the feeds to start. Then if you have a problem, you probably have a problem...:) Does that make sense???
I hate all this waiting too.

Iceprincess

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am getting an error as well. But I think it is because the feeds are not live yet. I am having no problem watching Big Brother Mexico.

Espen

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From the "fantasy league" rules, it looks like that game (and thus BB) will be running until Sep 23rd (pending schedule change) which means those signing up today and asking for the additional 30 days free on the phone should get the whole thing for just 9.95, as long as you remember to cancel the day after it is over (unless you like what superpass has to offer, which is possible I guess)..

Adamblast

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Has anyone tried accessing the UK feeds?

They're about halfway thru the show, and it's also being sponsored by RealOne subscriptions, so it may just be a matter of finding the links or URLs...

Jennypoo

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/live/live.html
this is the uk one I don't know if it works though

__Tera

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, I tried the UK feeds.

Here is the message I recieved:


It appears that you are already a subscriber to RealOne SuperPass.
However, to access premium content from top European partners such as CNN Europe, MTV Europe, CricInfo and UEFA, you must be subscriber to RealOne SuperPass Europe

Aaarg! SuperPass Europe?? Give me a break. I watched it last year with no problem

Therlin

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ve haff vays of making you pay!
</German accent>

Kissysmom

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Indeed you need SuperPass Europe to access the UK feeds.

I did have the Europe package just because I wanted to check out the quality of the feeds.

It was all ok, but I couldn't understand much of the lingo they used so it got boring for me pretty fast..lol

I did notice a whole "jail atmosphere" in there though, complete with bars. It seems there was a rich side and a poor side to the house and the contestants would get stuck on one side (some on one some on the other) between challanges.

Jennypoo

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 12:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes that was a challange they had the comunnity I belong to are huge on bb uk they had some weird rules like you could not pass anything from rich side to poor side or the bb house would take it. and a bunch of stuff like that

Halfunit

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 01:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just noticed on the Real Superpass homepage they have a BB3 live feed pic, but the link just brings you back to the home page - s'ok, someone at Real is preparing !!!

PS - with the new format of RealOne, I love being able to watch feeds and type on the message boards all in the same window!!

Britchick

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 02:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
RealPass Europe?! They are soooo cheeky! Just trying to make more money out of us aren't they? But if anyone is interested in BB UK, then I've been doing some updates in the BB3 UK area so come over there. You can also ask me any questions about the "funny lingo" we use!!
The bars which divided the house into rich and poor side are now down and we are down to the final 6 housemates.

Bastable

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 04:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For all Mac users:

I called Real and they explicitly said that RealOne may not work if run on Virutal PC. They seemed surprised that a RN "spokesperson" had told Canoe as much yesterday.

Indeed, it crashes when I try running it on my Virtual PC. It's having trouble accessing the .ram file.

The Real rep to whom I spoke told me--explicitly, no mistaking--that THERE WILL BE A MAC BETA RELEASE OF REALONE ON SUNDAY, JULY 14.

However, he also stressed that there's no guarantee that it will support Big Brother feeds at all, but may only be good for the other Superpass junkola.

So we're ahead one step, back two.

Ms_Snoodle

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hello! I'm new and rather naive about all this technical stuff. I signed up for the free trial today but I cannot get RealOne to work. It just keeps crashing. I was also told I could not get 30 extra days, that the reps were not supposed to be doing that and they were looking into it. But it doesn't really matter now since I can't get it to work.

Grannygrunt

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 04:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well I rushed home from work, signed up for superpass and my realone player didn't work. so off to the tech people. spoke with 3 DIFFERENT PEOPLE before we got it fixed. and a hour and half later it finally works. But because I had so much trouble I GOT 30 EXTRA DAYS FREE. Now it remains to be seen if I actually get them or not. Haven't received an email verifying the extra 30 days yet. So............. we'll see. Anyway I'm finally ready for tonight.
yyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa

Lilycakes

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 04:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Time to extend my first "thank you" to you guys! I knew exactly where to go and what to do and understood the charges before I began the RealOne download. All went great for me so I'm now waiting in anticipation. VERY thankfully I got lucky & didn't have the trouble Grannygrunt had but, drats, I'm not gonna get 30 days free either!

Karuuna

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 06:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bastable - thanks for keeping us Mac users updated! Maybe we'll get the feeds eventually.

Moondance

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 06:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kar I have a Mac and I am watching the feeds right now:)

Using Realplayer8

Crazykids

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 06:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
on another board I read that MAC users could sing up on the cbs site for the feeds after the show!?

Bastable

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 07:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, RealPlayer 8 is very buggy on Mac but it can work.

All that stuff about "Mac users will be shut out" is NOT techincally true.

We ARE shut out of RealOne for now. But I'm getting some intermittent feeds, too!

Yay Appleheads!

Moondance

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My realplayer8 is not buggie at all... I am having NO problems:)

Realpayer8
cable modem
G3

Bastable

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 07:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Moon, which Mac OS are you using? I'm OS X runnin' 9.1... which may be the problem. Serious redraw problems, and I'm getting a whole lot of "the content you have requested is not available" timeout messages when I first click on the stream.

Also, are you using RealPlayer8 the free version, or the paid Plus version?

Moondance

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 07:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
9.2 OS

I have Plus version but didn't pay for it. I upgraded my plugins for the basic free package.