Students Find Improved Service and Channels on NUTV

In response to student feedback, Northwestern University Information Technology and Northwestern's Division of Student Affairs bring improved NUTV services to campus spring quarter. Implemented during the week of spring break, the upgrade is a result of a partnership with DIRECTV to improve viewing quality and add additional channels to the lineup.

The upgrade provides 50 percent more channels than were previously available. The new channel lineup was selected by a student survey and includes many cable favorites.

Students living in residence halls and other paid subscribers to Northwestern's Expanded NUTV service will experience improved broadcast quality and 50 percent more channels than were previously available.

NUTV is available by launching the service from the NUTV Web site. To use NUTV, your computer must have a working network adapter card (NIC) and be connected to a multicast-enabled switched Ethernet connection on the NU Network. To view Expanded NUTV, you must be in residence hall with NUTV activated. In addition, your computer must meet certain minimum requirements:

Windows XP/2000:

• Pentium III or Celeron CPU (or equivalent), 750Mhz
• Java Virtual Machine
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, or Netscape Communicator

Mac OS X 10.2.x:

• PowerPC G4, 533MHz or faster
• OpenGL-capable video card (ATI Rage 128 or Radeon, any nVidia card)
• Safari, Firefox, and Mozilla are the preferred browsers

RedHat (Intel) Linux 7.3:

• Intel PIII 850MHz processor
• 24-bit graphics enabled
• Properly configured and enabled audio card/module
• Mozilla v0.9.9/v1.2a with Java Plug-in (i.e., v1.3) enabled.

• eCommunicator Spring 2007

NUIT Support Center

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