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This is the place to come for all your views, opinions and favourite bits :)

its not the streaming thats the problem for me, its watching one cam and hearing another, think the engineers need to sort the wiring out, someone re-labelled them all lol hope they fix that soon!

so far the views are excellent! keep it up guys and gals, enjoy your weekend out there!

jenny

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I've just got a free Sky box set up for my new bedroom. So I've managed to pull it across the room to the window, put the Sky on and have Radio 1 on Sky in the garden. Will swap to the red button later ;)

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i'm listening to R1 on sky while i browse the net seeing as the cams are down! If this happened last year, how come it happened again, surely they knew thousands would be viewing the webcams? anyway, hope they sort it soon otherwise i'd be wasting my weekend and doubting myself enjoying being so lazy sat here when i could be sunbathing and getting burnt lol

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They should have had all this on the red button,instead of online

True. Unfortunately the only space would be on Sky (Freeview has only one stream) and I think football prevents the coverage until 4pm.

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Well the cameras are back on and seem to be working without constant buffering.

However, the quality is really really bad, I wonder if they have had to downgrade it or something? Its not really worth watching at the moment.

There are sound problems at the moment too on main stage camera, as chipmunk is on screen and his backing track is playing but you can't hear him.

Looking forward to BBC Three coverage!

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Well the cameras are back on and seem to be working without constant buffering.

However, the quality is really really bad, I wonder if they have had to downgrade it or something? Its not really worth watching at the moment.

There are sound problems at the moment too on main stage camera, as chipmunk is on screen and his backing track is playing but you can't hear him.

Looking forward to BBC Three coverage!

samuelbailey

Having problems with bandwidth on site. Have dropped stream quality to compensate, while we get it fixed #r1bw

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Argghh! I came home especially to get Bieber Fever and it wasn't on the webcam!!!!!

Listening to sound check on Main stage Cam 2 "testing, testing etc...."

4th_floor_ "we also have a video of @JustinBieber performance, which is being approved by Justin right now. We should have it online later today. #R1BW"

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