science

LiveStation

LiveStation is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand LiveStation rather than just read about it. In short: Livestation was a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a data network. It was originally developed by Skinkers Ltd. and is now an independent company called Livestation Ltd.

Key takeaways

LiveStation belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect LiveStation to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of LiveStation from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Livestation was a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a data network. It was originally developed by Skinkers Ltd. and is now an independent company called Livestation Ltd. The service was originally based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research. Between mid-June 2013 and mid-July Livestation was unavailable to some subscribers due to technical issues. In late 2016, the service closed down without notice.

Overview Livestation aggregated international news channels online and offered them in some ways:

Free to watch: Some channels could be watched for free on the Livestation website or on their desktop player, a freely downloadable video application that presented all the channels through one interface. Premium service: Some of the free channels were also available on a subscription basis both in higher quality (800 kbit/s) and in lower (256 kbit/s) delivered via an international content distribution network for higher reliability. Mobile: Livestation launched BBC World News on the iPhone in 16 European countries and Al Jazeera English globally. The apps were available in the iOS AppStore and streamed the live TV channel 24/7 on both Wi-Fi and 3G connections. Livestation broadcast streams are encoded in VC-1 format (Livestation is not currently using peer-to-peer). Playback controls were overlaid on top of the video stream. Unlike services such as Joost which offer video-on-demand channels, Livestation streams live broadcasts. Livestation provided a website, mobile website and native applications for the iOS, Android, Nokia and Blackberry handsets. Early models of Samsung TV were also supported. They also provided desktop software available for Windows, Mac (including PowerPC) and Linux. The cross-platform compatibility of the desktop software was facilitated by the Qt framework. Social networking features were later added that include the ability to chat with other viewers and also find out what others are watching through a user-generated rating system. You could search and select the available channels either from the website or from within the software. In the first quarter of 2011 by 1047 percent, resulting in the first profitable quarter in its history. Between mid-June and mid-July 2013, Livestation suffered a prolonged series of technical issues and was unavailable to some users. In early 2015, Livestation re-branded their entire site changing what channels were offered and bringing in an interactive feature. Some stations on the app were not on the main site and vice versa.

Available channels Stations available until closure and former live TV news channels in the global offering (which comes with a default installation) included, as of 2016:

ABS-CBN News Channel Al Aan TV Al-Alam News Network Al Arabiya Al Jazeera Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera Mubasher Al Mayadeen Al Nabaa TV BBC Arabic BBC Persian BBC World News BBC World Service Radio CNBC CNBC Arabiya (EMEA) Bloomberg TV BBC News Channel CCTV News CNC World CNN International C-SPAN Democratic Voice of Burma Deutsche Welle TV and radio eNCA Euronews Espreso TV Fox News Radio France24 HispanTV i24news Kurdast News Libya TV NASA TV NHK World News One News Press TV RFI Afrique and Monde. Reuters TV Russia Today SAMAA TV Sky News Arabia Sky News International TeleSUR United Nations Television UNHCR TV VOA Persian As of 2016, the Livestation site is closed.

See also IPTV Internet Television TVUnetworks

References

External links Official website Live Station Status

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with LiveStation

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what LiveStation claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to LiveStation before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about LiveStation ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of LiveStation

In research: LiveStation appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses LiveStation in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: LiveStation is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Defunct companies based in London, Defunct video on demand services, Internet properties disestablished in 2016, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for LiveStation outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study LiveStation in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what LiveStation means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain LiveStation out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is LiveStation in simple terms?

Why does LiveStation matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study LiveStation?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on LiveStation.