Tag Archives: iPlayer

Once your lucky, Twice your stupid.

BBC1 will be web-streamed live through BBC.co.uk as of next year, according to the broadcaster’s director general Mark Thompson. BBC1 is internet bound Hoping to capitalise on its impressive iPlayer service the Beeb has decided why not go back to the 90′s and try something they know doesn’t work. People simply do not want to [...]

The BBC actual seem to get things…

This week the BBC has joined the OpenID foundation. BBC Internet Blog  OK, so there are some problems but I do have faith that they know what they have to do particularly with making iPlayer Cross-Platform and stripping the DRM (I think a little wishful thinking is needed on this point) Overall the BBC have seemed [...]

BBC Clogging the Tubes

Senior executives, including BT Retail’s Ian Livingston, The Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone and Tiscali UK’s chief Mary Turner have held informal talks amid growing anger over the BBC’s hitching a ‘free ride’ with its new iPlayer system for downloading TV programmes over the web. Link Oh no the ISPs don’t like there bandwidth being [...]