Tag Archives: iPlayer
Lack of Online Content
The recent inclusion of the UK commercial channels into the UI and search for the BBC iPlayer also showed me something else that was very clear. In iPlayer, you see a wealth of content with some blackspots of programmes that are not available such as Films and Sports. This is a tragedy but a commercial [...]
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 [...]
Google TV Will “Change the Way People Live their Lives”.. Maybe…
Not so sure about this one, it would take a lot to change many people’s lives - Google TV Will “Change the Way People Live their Lives”. Yet to get around the sensationalist views, this is an important new product. However its importance to European TV users requires breaking through the content quality barrier and also [...]
UK Network Neutrality fallen on the knife
Network Neutrality has fallen at the first hurdle in the UK, and this is not about traffic management. The BBC has raised concerns after it learned that BT’s Total Broadband traffic management platform was being used to throttle the speed at which customers view web based video sites, such as its own iPlayer service and [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
EeePC and the Consultant Follow up
I posted about looking to the newer Atom based machines to solve the last couple of problems I had with my EeePC. I could not wait however, falling foul of finding a review on EeeUser.com for the new 6600mAh batteries available from Cameron Sino, available for a very reasonable price from Clove Technology. I snapped [...]