Tag: iPlayer
Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, has stated that their incredibly popular iPlayer web-based catchup service will come fully to Mac users by the end of the year.
The BBC's iPlayer now works on Firefox
Great news. The only time I’ve had to use Internet Explorer so far this year was when loading up the Beeb’s iPlayer to see if the new series of Torchwood was as bad and as homo-erotically-charged as everyone said it was. It was.
Fortunately, iPlayer now works on Firefox. Without any extra fiddling around. Look at that image there – I just took that in Firefox. It worked. There was no fiddling around or installing of stuff. Internet Explorer is now dead to me…
BBC iPlayer racks up 3.5 million views in 20 days
Those of you not affected by port’n’turkey sloth on Christmas Day may well have downloaded the official release of the BBC’s iPlayer, as it came out that day. According to the Beeb, more than a million people have since used the service, watching more than 3.5 million programmes
BBC teams up with Adobe (not Microsoft!) to create Flash-based cross-platform iPlayer
We've already criticised the BBC's iPlayer software for being too restrictive, but now it seems that the BBC Trust's commitment to opening it up might be more than just boardroom talk. The BBC has announced that it's partnered with…
UK Government backs BBC Trust's commitment to make iPlayer available on other platforms (eventually)
The Government has responded to an online petition calling for the BBC to make its iPlayer software, currently available for beta testing – available to more than just Windows XP users, by backing the BBC Trust's commitment to making the…
Opinion: The BBC should launch a DAB-enabled mobile phone with iPlayer functionality
Stuart Dredge writes…
Cor, did you see the story earlier on today, about the BBC getting into gadgets? It’s funding the development of Olinda, a prototype DAB radio with ‘social’ features, including the ability to see when one of your friends has their radio on, and tune into whatever they’re listening to.
UK ISPs send BBC warning about possible bandwidth hogging iPlayer
Internet Service Providers in the UK are warning the BBC that the widespread use of its iPlayer service may put too much strain on their networks, and consequently they could place restrictions on their users’ access to it.
Demand for the service certainly seems high, with over 120,000 people signing up to be beta testers in the first week alone.
Yet while it provides great additional exposure for a variety of the BBC’s TV programmes, leading ISPs including BT, Tiscali, and the Carphone Warehouse believe that its soaring popularity will eat heavily into their bandwidth.
BBC's iPlayer signs up 120k beta testers in its first week
According to the BBC, 120,000 people downloaded its iPlayer TV catch-up application in its first week of beta testing, with 105,000 of those activating it. That’s impressive figures, although as a sour grapes merchant, I wonder how many people would’ve downloaded iPlayer if it worked on a wider range of computers.
Opinion: BBC iPlayer's platform restrictions are a joke
Stuart Dredge writes…
I was going to write a proper in-depth review of the BBC’s new iPlayer catch-up TV service, which launched in beta on Friday. But then I found out my PC is too new. Yeah, I know. I can finally run Second Life and play Football Manager with a few leagues running at once, but I can’t use iPlayer.
Is the BBC really porting its iPlayer to iPhone?
That’s what Engadget Mobile is reporting, based on a promotional video for iPlayer that appears to show the BBC’s catch-up TV service working on an iPhone.
