Tag Archives: ITV
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]