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December 12th, 2005, 12:42 PM
The long-awaited premium broadband service, dubbed Pipeline, went live December 5 and already has signed up a number of subscribers in its initial week, though CNN executives decline to cite specifics. The killer app for Pipeline is four live video streams, which offer mostly unedited looks at news events throughout the world.
These streams -- or "pipes" -- can be played in a special video player and chosen by Pipeline's editors in Atlanta. On Thursday night, Pipeline offered video streams from CNN International, a memorial service for slain Beatle John Lennon in Central Park, the House of Representatives and a traffic cam on a snowy Chicago night. That last pipe turned out to be prescient an hour later when news broke out from Chicago's Midway Airport when a Southwest Airlines jet slid off a runway. The third stream became video live from
Read the complete article (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-12-10T021249Z_01_HAR007942_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-CNN.xml&archived=False/)
These streams -- or "pipes" -- can be played in a special video player and chosen by Pipeline's editors in Atlanta. On Thursday night, Pipeline offered video streams from CNN International, a memorial service for slain Beatle John Lennon in Central Park, the House of Representatives and a traffic cam on a snowy Chicago night. That last pipe turned out to be prescient an hour later when news broke out from Chicago's Midway Airport when a Southwest Airlines jet slid off a runway. The third stream became video live from
Read the complete article (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-12-10T021249Z_01_HAR007942_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-CNN.xml&archived=False/)