Archive for the 'BBC iPlayer' Category
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 May 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, Services, UK, BBC
As expected, BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin media at the press of the Red Button on the remote to view on their TVs, rather than having to drag their PC in front of them.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 17 April 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, UK, BBC
How wrong The Times are in their piece praising Ashley Highfield, entitled “Business big shot: Ashley Highfield.”
To label him as the man behind the launch of the BBC iPlayer, misleads their readers.
Ashley might have been the person who stood himself up for interviews, giving the impression that he was the man behind it.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 9 April 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, BBC iPlayer, UK, BBC, Video on Demand (VoD), Cross platform
BBC iPlayer is further expanding the hardware platforms that it’s available on - the last was a troublesome iPhone launch.
The latest is the Nintendo Wii, announced today, bringing the advantage that the iPlayer content can be viewed on a ‘normal’ TV, rather than on a computer screen.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 14 March 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, Apple, Copy Protection, UK, BBC
Just when the BBC were pleased to tell everyone that they’d fixed the hole in their iPhone iPlayer service that let people download TV programmes without DRM - the very next day, the originator of the hack, Paul Battley, produced an update to get around the BBC’s fix, re-opening the whole.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 7 March 2008 | Tagged as: Content, BBC iPlayer, Apple, UK, Mobile, BBC, Wireless
BBC iPlayer is coming to the Apple iPhone.
The BBC iPlayer service, that lets UK TV licence players watch selected piece of content that have been shown on TV in the proceeding fourteen days, is going to be usable and playable on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch using WiFi connections.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 20 February 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, UK, BBC, Software
We and other publications have been reporting that the BBC iPlayer has been taken up in large numbers by UK TV License payers.
We’ve experienced something that other individuals might, one that will have serious implications for the long term success of BBC’s heavily-promoted service.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 7 February 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, Video Services, UK, BBC
Switch to open web platform sees BBC triumphing over rivals.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 23 January 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, BBC
One of the (many) complaints that people had with the BBC iPlayer was that their processing power and bandwidth was being used even when they didn’t have the iPlayer application loaded.
While some of the more technically minded might have known that this would have been the case by default, the majority - and let’s not […]
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 15 January 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, Video Services, UK, BBC
Aunty Beeb’s on-demand Internet TV service proves a hit
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Posted by Simon Perry on 7 November 2007 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, UK, BBC
As promised, below is the interview we did yesterday evening with Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium, following their meeting the BBC Technology staff, giving you the latest news on the BBC’s view on changing the iPlayer to an open platform rather than the Microsoft-only approach they’ve taken until now.
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