Tag: iPlayer
BBC plans iPlayer pre-booking service
The BBC has formally proposed another new feature for the superb iPlayer video on demand service: a pre-booking function. Did anyone else feel that? It felt like a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of ISPs suddenly cried out in terror.
BBC ready to unveil iPlayer 2.0 beta, offering personalised TV and radio
The BBC has announced version two of its phenomenally popular iPlayer web site will be available in beta from today.
The new service will feature “an all-new dynamic-page-rendering architecture” which means a much more personalised service, better integrated radio and TV listings, and higher quality for both video and audio…
So long, internet: BBC One to be streamed online
Did you enjoy having the web? It sure has been a hoot having it around. I’m certainly going to miss it. We’d better get the most of it while we can, now that the BBC has decided to bring it crashing to its knees…
WiiPlayer – a hacked and streamlined unofficial iPlayer app for Wii
Some extremely clever man has been working away on improving the Wii’s iPlayer, creating his own solution to the rather clunky and slow official Wii implementation of the Beeb’s streaming telly service.
Moaning that the Wii’s slightly duff Opera browser simply hasn’t got the right screen resolution to handle the BBC’s default text and layout, the creator has simplified the design, bumped up the font size and generally “Apple-ised” the look and feel of iPlayer so it’s quicker to operate and easier to find your way around…
BBC iPlayer passes 75million download mark
The consumer-popular and industry-terrifying whirling dervish that is the BBC iPlayer has hit over 75million downloads…
iPlayer streaming demand appears to be levelling off, according to one UK ISP
The extraordinary demand for the BBC’s iPlayer service appears to be reaching a plateau, at least for now, if one ISP’s usage statistics are anything to go by.
PlusNet has been monitoring the effect of its customers streaming content from the BBC iPlayer, and has seen modest percentage rises in usage since March. February’s figures were up 25% over January, but March was around 6.6% higher than February, and April just 3.2% over March…
Stephen Fry mocks the "incredible naivety" of the BBC's iPlayer
Speaking in one of a series of lectures organised by the BBC to inform the debate over public service broadcasting, legendary actor and comedian Stephen Fry hit out at the BBC iPlayer downloadable content service. “There is this marvellous idea the iPlayer is secure,” he said. “It’s anything but secure.”
Virgin Media offers BBC iPlayer on TV
It might be less than keen on the online version, but Virgin Media obviously has no objections to a TV-based version of the BBC iPlayer…
Uh oh, now BBC iPlayer is in trouble with BSkyB
James Murdoch, chief exec of BSkyB, has attacked the BBC iPlayer service, claiming that it is stifling competition. Speaking at the Marketing Society annual lecture in London, Murdoch called out the BBC trust – the corporation’s governing body – accusing it of an “abrogation of responsibility”…
Ofcom: the BBC should not fund ISP's network upgrades
Our faith in all that is just and fair was restored by Ofcom today when the battle between content providers, most notably the BBC’s iPlayer, and UK Internet Service Providers reached Parliament…
