BBC iPlayer Now Supports Apple Macs. Kind Of. December 13, 2007
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After much whining and moaning about iPlayer, the BBC has re-launched the download TV service with support for Macs. Limited support, that is.
The Apple-friendlier version of the beta iPlayeris a stripped down version of the Windows PC service and allows Mac users to stream the last 7 days of TV to their browser. PC users though get to download TV up to a month old and keep it for up to 30 days for their viewing convenience. No doubt, there will be complaints but at least it’s better than nothing.
The iPlayer service, which has been in beta since July, has come under attack from Mac and Linux users after the BBC launched the service for Windows PCs only to start with. The BBC has been told to add support for them as quickly as possible.
iPlayer will come off beta and launch for real on Christmas Day which I hope, for the BBC's sake, goes well since you couldn't pick a more conspicuous day to launch anything technical.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
Just tried it... still says it's Windows only... :(
It works on linux for streaming content, the "windows only" part is the downloading and playing offline.
Supports Macs' sort of in so much as it doesn't support Macs' and keeps stopping every five seconds and is total crap!! Just what you'd expect from the dear old Beeb.