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Archive for 'iplayer'

BBC iPlayer back on Wii: a tipping point?

18 November 2009 1 , , ,

The BBC's new iPlayer 'app' for the Wii is now available for download: and it has the potential to do amazing things to UK viewing habits. Thus far, if you wanted to watch iPlayer via your Nintendo Wii (and your wireless broadband connection), there was a web-based interface, not dissimilar to iplayer/bigscreen - which was [...] read on »

Govt comms: better, but years behind

Flicking across the news channels tonight, I bumped into recorded coverage of Wednesday's Lords Communications Committee. You had the BBC's Frank Gardner and Sky's Tim Marshall, plus a couple of other senior journalists, giving their frank opinions on the state of media, politics and government. I only caught the last few minutes; it looks like [...] read on »

Highfield quits BBC

14 April 2008 1 , , ,

I'm sure other people will have much better insight than I into the departure of Ashley Highfield from his £359,000/year job at the BBC. Of course, he's moving to a not-unrelated position, heading up Project Kangaroo, the video-on-demand joint-venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel Four. The success of iPlayer version 2 may or may [...] read on »

BBC finally embedding video

14 March 2008 7 , , , ,

Steve Herrman, writing on the BBC's Editors blog, is absolutely right: the move to video embedded on the page is 'quite a significant moment' for the Beeb's website. Except that, judging by the first visible example, it's got issues. It's either failing to buffer, or returning an error message. As explained in more detail on [...] read on »

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