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cnet videos

May 26, 2006 10:06PM PDT

Cnet videos really are snippets that confuse more then what they give. Witness the video on calendars. Verinoca talks so fast and tells you things that are not present.

Where is the good old written word.

Enough technology. I'll do a good goggle search and find something useful.

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advertisements are annoying
Jul 4, 2006 5:58PM PDT

I understand the need to have advertisements preceeding the cnet videos, but please, if the video is only one minute long, the ad should not be 20 seconds long. Most times, people are watching a series of videos to compare reviews to one another. This makes watching 20 second ads every minute quite annoying. It would also help if there was more ad variety. Variety in this case means more than one. Watching the same best buy ad 40 times does not make me want to go to best buy. (I know cnet doesn't make the ads, it just added to my frustration).

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CNET Videos simply don't play
Jul 6, 2006 11:21PM PDT

I, on a number of occasions, have been deprived of the chance of viewing the CNET videos. Sometimes, they simply don't play. Other times I will get to watch the pre-video commercial, but then the Video will not play. This happens pretty frequently and there is no apparent easy fix (rebooting, closing and re-opening the browser, trying different browsers...). Why CNET, Why do you tease.

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Hey all, can you do me favor and send all CNET TV feedback.
Jul 7, 2006 6:43AM PDT
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Cannot run Cnet TV in Opera 9.01
Aug 9, 2006 2:18PM PDT

I cannot run Cnet Tv in the latest Opera browser. When I try to load the page, the audio starts playing but the browser window is black. Can anyone help?

thanks.

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Browser incompatibility...
Aug 10, 2006 3:35AM PDT

I just checked it using Opera and experienced the same issue myself so I sent a report to the CnetTV team. Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue soon regarding Cnet TV's usage of the Flash plugin in Opera. Until then just stick with Internet Explorer or Firefox, both of which display CnetTV.com correctly.

Regards,
John

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Re: Browser incompatibility
Aug 10, 2006 3:58AM PDT

Interestingly, Cnet TV worked with my previous version of Opera 9.0 beta. It stopped working when I upgraded to version 9.01