Bad NASA TV video on G3 900mHz iBook

Greetings.
Has anyone else come across this on NASA TV? ( http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html)
Recently I discovered that NASA TV was looking horrible, with blurry double-imaged herringbone-like images. Never acted like this before when I dropped by for other launches. I don't know of any other sites to test this with, though YouTube does just fine!
My 900mHz 10.3.9 G3 iBook uses Quicktime 7.5, Flip4Mac 2.2.1.1 (actually gets worst with latest versions) and Windows Media Player 9.0. Also, this occurs with my 10.4.11 partition with the latest in QT and Flip4Mac.
Any clues?
Thanks!
Jim

there are some embedded stream links in the site's code. try these in quicktime or VLC (tho the latter one may only work under windoze, I'm away from the macs right now ;):
http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335mainNASA_TVQT.qtl
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773

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