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The French, English and Arabic channels are all available live on the France 24 website, broadcast en direct in Windows Media format. On 1 April 2007, the Irish terrestrial channel TG4 began carrying retransmissions of France 24 overnight. Previously, it had retransmitted Euronews. France 24 is Also Available on Livestation. In 2007, France 24 started a VOD service on Virgin Media, allowing customers to access weekly news updates and programmes to watch when they choose. A free application means that France 24 is also available live and VOD on mobile phones throughout the world. An official App for the iPhone has also been released. In October 2009, France24 Relaunched its website France24.com, with a complete video archive, as well as video on-demand service where you can watch any of the three channels in High Definition and with the ability to rewind the past 24 hours worth of programming. On 1 March 2010, France 24 released live streaming with experimental automatic transcription, in association with Yacast Media, the search engine Exalead, Vocapia Research, and Microsoft. On 2 March 2010 Iran blocked the news website of this French broadcaster. On 9 January 2011, France 24's English and French channels officially switched to 16x9 widescreen at 02:00 Paris Time, the Arabic channel switched to widescreen later that day at 06:00 Paris Time. To coincide with the new format, graphics were modified to fit the new format. The studio design was not altered. The Video player at France24.com was also amended to accommodate the new format.France 24 going widescreen |















