Posts Tagged ‘ iPlayer ’

BBC Updates Popular iPlayer

Jun 25th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Video

The BBC today introduced an updated version of the BBC iPlayer, which fully combines radio and TV in one interface.
The BBC iPlayer is an Internet-based on-demand catch-up service for BBC media, and is available on PC, Mac, Linux, Virgin Media, Apple iPhone & iPod touch and Nintendo Wii.
The BBC reports that it has served over [...]



BBC Coming To The Nintendo Wii

Apr 9th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

The BBC has announced that its iPlayer video service will soon be available via the Nintendo Wii.
iPlayer is a video download and streaming service that lets people catch up with BBC programming. An early version of the service should be available starting today but more polished software will be released as the service is developed.
If [...]



BBC iPlayer Demonstrates Demand For On-Demand Video

Jan 15th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

The BBC has announced that their controversial iPlayer on-demand video application has been downloaded over a million times, and that users have viewed over 3.5 million programs.
BBC research reveals that an average of a quarter of a million programs have been downloaded or streamed each day since 25 December.
Users, on average, watch each streamed program [...]



Internet Video News Highlights For Sept. 7

Sep 7th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Video

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 [...]



BBC Intros Closed On-Demand Internet Video System

Jul 27th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video

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 [...]