There’s a lot of news in the area of Internet video today. Here are the highlights:

The UK government has responded to the controversy over the BBC’s recently introduced iPlayer digital video application, which only runs on Windows XP. We called it a closed on-demand video system when it was introduced. The government is now committed [...]

UK ISPs, including Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, are warning that they may “pull the plug” on the BBC’s new iPlayer, a new Windows Internet video player, because of its potential to eat up Internet bandwidth. They’re threatening to block the player or throttle bandwidth for users unless the BBC gives the ISPs a [...]

The BBC has launched a closed on-demand Internet video system, iPlayer, that will let users download and view shows broadcast in the last week.
The BBC is giving the new offering an unusual amount of hype. BBC director general Mark Thompson calls¬†the launch of iPlayer “as big a milestone as the arrival of colour TV.”
iPlayer Details:

iPlayer will [...]

Actor’s union Equity purports to have achieved a world first, after agreeing a rights deal with the producer of an updated audio podcast of 70s cult sci-fi show Blake’s 7.
Equity said its ground-breaking agreement with B7 Productions would guarantee performers a share of net revenues generated from podcast downloads as well as from audio streaming [...]

BBC NEWS has an interesting article about broadcasters joining the world’s airwaves using Campcaster, open-source software which lets people run a radio station from a single computer for free.
Campcaster takes a regular PC and turns it into a tool for managing every aspect of a radio station broadcast. The software is the idea of the [...]

The venerable BBC has announced plans to offer hundreds of episodes of its programs on a file-sharing network for the first time, Azureus’ Zudeo. Until now, most BBC programmes found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks have been illegal copies.
Azureus is best known for developing a BitTorrent client, or program, that allows large media files to be [...]

The BBC reports that the online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time. 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.
One in five people who watched online or mobile video at [...]

After a 6 month trial, the BBC are shelving the Ouch! podcast, a show that takes an irreverent look at disabilities.
Fans of the show can sign a petition to help save the show.
According to presenter Liz Carr, “The podcast has been a resounding success. It filled a gaping hole in disability entertainment… This is our [...]

According to Chortle, a UK comedy guide, the BBC has dropped a popular podcast by comedian Russell Brand after the he refused to allow them to edit out controversial material. The BBC wanted to cut from his podcast a segment involving disabled basketball player Ade Adepitan.
‘I think we could have found a version that could [...]

BBC News has launched several video podcasts of highlights from their news broadcasts.The BBC video podcasts will include ten ‘best of the week’ packages from Ten O’Clock News - called Ten Weekly - as well as subscribe to Newsnight reports and investigations from the previous seven days. Also available in the first phase of the [...]