Tag Archives: BBC
Youview nails
An interesting development yesterday: The BBC is opening up the BBC iPlayer to third party channels. The sharing of metadata from ITV, Channel 4, S4C, Five, SeeSaw and the MSN video player means that programmes from ‘rival’ channels can now be accessed directly from the BBC iPlayer website. via BBC iPlayer brings in rival channels [...]
Timing is important… Youview
Last weekend I received a new software update for my Humax HDR-T2 DVR, giving it access to iPlayer and a limited number of other services. This has been promoted as a feature of my DVR since it was launched in the summer of last year, and it a pretty nice implementation of a portal allowing [...]
Mobile TV resurrected in the UK?
The BBC is testing the live streaming of its television and radio channels to wi-fi enabled mobile devices. BBC launches live mobile TV tests | Broadband TV News I have talked about this before, with the BT Movio service particularly. Video has not proven to be a huge draw for most people except those that [...]
Digital Britain
OFCOM with Lord Carter has published the Interim report about the vision for some of the country’s critical digital services and communications issues, and it was readily digested by all and sundry. The press have really dissected the report for its facts which you can via your favourite search engine, readily find out. Alternatively can [...]
Internet Broadcasting
Over the last couple of days, I had become aware that in the UK, we could watch pretty much live what ITV produces across four channels (ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4). There are some exemptions where rights are not available as such, but this is a pretty good service based on Silverlight. Prior to Christmas, the [...]
Filtering breaks down
The IWF has now backed down from censoring an image on Wikipedia, the censorship of which was adjudged by many to be too wide ranging by taking in the entire page, in addition to the fact that the image (although not nice) was generally available in libraries, record stores and online download services. The secondary [...]
Kangaroo by the back door
News report on the Guardian newspaper web site (pointed out by Ryan Carson of Carsonified media – thanks) has put it that the BBC is mulling of the sharing of the iPlayer technology with Channel 4 and ITV. This sounds logical until you realise that it could be Kangaroo/Seesaw by the backdoor. I have been [...]
Filtering and its effect on IPTV
Outside of the walled gardens of mainstream IPTV providers like BBC iPlayer, Tiscali/Homechoice and BT Vision, there is a lot of content being provided by over the Internet to PCs and to TV connected PCs. I am not talking about the fenced gardens like Youtube, but the content being provided by companies such as Revision3, [...]
BBC and Open Source – Launch of new variant DIRAC CODEC
The BBC will be launching a new variant of their DIRAC Codec at IBC 2007 in September. The BBC have had some very obvious and high profile problems with their use of proprietary and Windows only DRM for their iPlayer. It seems very interesting that they have expended a lot of effort on their own [...]