Date   : Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:59:06
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Promo Videos

Steve Fewell wrote:
> --- gARetH baBB <hick.bbc@...> wrote:
>> Please use divx/mp4, and please please dump the
>> silly download websites
>> which don't really work and use bittorrent.
>>
>
> I wasn't too keen on the download websites either -
> however, the pushfile site allows download managers to
> be used, so you don't need to download the whole file
> at once - if that helps.
>
> I hate using the Windows Open or Save options, as
> sometimes they give up half way through without any
> error messages!

Most web and/or FTP servers support restarts these days, and there are plenty
of client tools out there which support restarts. I suspect that most web
browsers these days do too (certainly Netscape and Opera used to).