The BBC, ITV and BT have announced a proposal to create an “open environment for broadband connected digital television receivers.” It’s an initiative open for all UK public service broadcasters, device developers and other ISPs, which they hope will lead to a new generation of subscription free devices, carrying free to air channels and a … Continue reading BBC, ITV & BT Announce Open Broadband STB Project
The iPlayer contributes to the growing popularity of the bbc.co.uk Web site.
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.
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. … Continue reading Ashley Highfield: iPlayer Glory Boy?
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.
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.
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.
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 … Continue reading iPlayer: HowTo Turn Off Sharing
There was a petition put on to the Number 10 Web Site questioning if the iPlayer should only be available on the Microsoft platform. On the last look it had 16,071 signatures on it from members of the public concerned about it as well. Just now the Prime Minister issued his response.
Tonight sees the first BBC TV programme broadcast in Second Life – The Money Programme. Not surprisingly, the subject will be virtual worlds with two sections being covered – free to enter worlds like Second Life and pay for services, or Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMORPG), like World of Warcraft.