i thought id take a look and see if they let you play the stream in anything other than the browser and media player.
its working here for now, but you cant even play it outside the browser and hence cant stuff it in a corner with allways on top set.
if someone can find the direct url then you should be able to use any video app including VLC and WMC.
right clicking the video info gives you this url
http://www.ntlworld.com/broadbandplu...rother/ews.php
but its not the direct link as they most redirect and cover their tracks to a server streaming file.
right clicking the 'big brother live' text brings back this html
"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>ntlworld.com Big Brother LIVE</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
/* <![CDATA[ */
@import "/styles/base.css";
@import "/styles/video.css";
/* ]]> */
</style>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/scr/tab_activate.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="bigbrother">
<div class="wrapVidpop">
<div class="bigbrother-ad-wrap">
<div class="adTop">
<script type="text/javascript" src="<A href="http://adserver.virgin.net/js.ng/site=ntlworld&pos=top&size=banner&chan nel=broadbandplus&subchannel=auth&pagename =s&tile=48841860&ord=48841860"></script">http://adserver.virgin.net/js.ng/site=ntlworld&pos=top&size=banner&chan nel=broadbandplus&subchannel=auth&pagename =s&tile=48841860&ord=48841860"></script>
</div><!-- / adsTop -->
</div>
<div class="bigbrotherVidHeader">
<img src="/video/bigbrother/images/bigbrother_video_header.jpg" width="479" height="59" />
</div>
<div class="feat ftBxGryVidpop">
<h3>Big Brother LIVE</h3>
<div class="vidpopCentre" style="#000000; margin:0; padding:0">
<object id="Player" classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex...ion=5,1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." width="479" height="359" border="0">
<param name="AutoSize" value="0" />
<param name="AutoStart" value="1" />
<param name="AnimationAtStart" value="1" />
<param name="FileName" value="ews.php" />
<param name="ShowControls" value="0" />
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="-1" />
<param name="DisplayForeColor" value="16777215" />
<param name="DisplayMode" value="0" />
<param name="DisplaySize" value="0" />
<param name="Enabled" value="-1" />
<param name="EnableContextMenu" value="-1" />
<param name="EnablePositionControls" value="-1" />
<param name="EnableFullScreenControls" value="-1" />
<param name="Enabletracker" value="-1" />
<param name="InvokeURLs" value="-1" />
<embed animationatstart="1"
autosize="0"
autostart="1"
displaybackcolor="blue"
border="0"
width="479"
height="359"
showcontrols="0"
pluginspage="
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
showdisplay="0"
showstatusbar="1"
src="ews.php"
type="video/x-ms-asf-plugin"
filename="ews.php">
</embed>
</object>
</div>
</div> <!-- feat -->
</div> <!-- / Wrapvidpop -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Just a blank screen. I watched it once after registering, now nothing. Interestingly, if I go back to the signup page where I entered my name/email address, it doesn't give me that option - just gives me a link to buy broadband 
