If you hadn’t noticed(!), today is iPlayer day.
The BBC Internet blog is covered in posting from various of the BBC bloggers, so many, that they run way over the front page.
Anthony Rose, Controller, Online Media Group and Vision, Future Media & Technology (blimey he must have a wide business card!), who oversees iPlayer, has recorded a video (not surprisingly playing in an iPlayer viewer).
He goes over his history with iPlayer and then projects forward into features and functions that he’d like to see incorporated into iPlayer in the future.
iPlayer 3, as it’s being labelled, will be available Q1 or Q2 in 2009 and will incoporate social features.
Continue reading iPlayer 3: New Social Functions Outlined For Q1-Q2 2009
The BBC, ITV and BT have announced a proposal to create an “open environment for broadband connected digital television receivers.”
As expected, BBC 
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BBC iPlayer is further expanding the hardware platforms that it’s available on – 
Just when the BBC were pleased to 
BBC iPlayer is coming to the Apple iPhone.
We and other publications have been reporting that the 
Media analyst spods Screen Digest have released updated usage data and forecasts for the online TV market in the UK.
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.