New ITVX Channel Streams Absolutely Spellbinding Footage of Earth... Forever (theguardian.com)
(Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
from the world-first dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/2255204/new-itvx-channel-streams-absolutely-spellbinding-footage-of-earth-forever
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/15/space-live-new-tv-channel-real-time-broadcast-international-space-station-itvx
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian:
> I realize that, at this point, there are already far too many shows. Every channel, every streaming service is teeming with content demanding your attention, and there are simply too few hours in the day to watch them all. However, with that in mind, may I recommend a new show called Space Live? There's only one episode. The only potential downside is that the episode literally lasts for ever. Actually, that's inaccurate. Space Live isn't a show, it's a channel. It launched on Wednesday morning, tucked away on ITVX, and [1]consists only of live footage of Earth broadcast from the International Space Station . It's beguiling to watch, especially for anyone who didn't realize that a person can be awestruck and bored simultaneously.
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> It's billed as a world first. ITV has partnered with British space media company Sen to use live 4K footage from its proprietary SpaceTV-1 video camera system, mounted on the International Space Station, giving us three camera views: one of the station's docking ports, a horizon view able to show sunrises and storms, and a camera pointing straight down as the ISS passes across the planet. A tracker in the corner of the screen shows the live location of the ISS, while a real-time AI information feed provides facts about our geography and weather systems.
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> Of course, if you wanted to be picky, you could argue it isn't exactly new. Nasa's YouTube channel has been [2]streaming live footage from the ISS for years, and uniformly draws an audience of a few thousand. But Space Live is, if nothing else, slightly snazzier. The footage is certainly nicer: at 8.30am on Wednesday, Space Live showed gorgeous images of the sun's glare bouncing off the sea around the Bay of Biscay, while all Nasa could offer was a piece of cloth with the word "Flap" written on it. There's even a soundtrack, a constant, soothing kind of hold music that loops and loops without ever becoming fully annoying. It's an improvement, in other words. And, at least for the first orbit, it is absolutely spellbinding.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/15/space-live-new-tv-channel-real-time-broadcast-international-space-station-itvx
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYmvCUonukw
> I realize that, at this point, there are already far too many shows. Every channel, every streaming service is teeming with content demanding your attention, and there are simply too few hours in the day to watch them all. However, with that in mind, may I recommend a new show called Space Live? There's only one episode. The only potential downside is that the episode literally lasts for ever. Actually, that's inaccurate. Space Live isn't a show, it's a channel. It launched on Wednesday morning, tucked away on ITVX, and [1]consists only of live footage of Earth broadcast from the International Space Station . It's beguiling to watch, especially for anyone who didn't realize that a person can be awestruck and bored simultaneously.
>
> It's billed as a world first. ITV has partnered with British space media company Sen to use live 4K footage from its proprietary SpaceTV-1 video camera system, mounted on the International Space Station, giving us three camera views: one of the station's docking ports, a horizon view able to show sunrises and storms, and a camera pointing straight down as the ISS passes across the planet. A tracker in the corner of the screen shows the live location of the ISS, while a real-time AI information feed provides facts about our geography and weather systems.
>
> Of course, if you wanted to be picky, you could argue it isn't exactly new. Nasa's YouTube channel has been [2]streaming live footage from the ISS for years, and uniformly draws an audience of a few thousand. But Space Live is, if nothing else, slightly snazzier. The footage is certainly nicer: at 8.30am on Wednesday, Space Live showed gorgeous images of the sun's glare bouncing off the sea around the Bay of Biscay, while all Nasa could offer was a piece of cloth with the word "Flap" written on it. There's even a soundtrack, a constant, soothing kind of hold music that loops and loops without ever becoming fully annoying. It's an improvement, in other words. And, at least for the first orbit, it is absolutely spellbinding.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/15/space-live-new-tv-channel-real-time-broadcast-international-space-station-itvx
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYmvCUonukw
Anybody got the link? (Score:2)
by balaam's ass ( 678743 )
TFA didn't see fit to link to the stream in question. Searched ITVX and just found the press release.
Re: (Score:2)
by ThePhish ( 154000 )
found the link for it, but it's behind a geofence that requires registration w/ a UK postal code to proceed. burner email deployed.
nice but you have to be in the UK (Score:1)
by retrobunnies ( 6948924 )
Funny how you kind have left out the point OP
How's that again? (Score:2)
> Every channel, every streaming service is teeming with content demanding your attention, and there are simply too few hours in the day to watch them all.
The writer certainly has a... unique... outlook on this, I suppose. But I can't say I ever hear anyone say "gosh, there just isn't enough time available for me to watch everything I want to watch!"
No, what I hear is - "why are these streaming services putting out so much absolute crapola nowadays?"