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February 25, 2008 |
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iPhone To Get BBC iPlayer February 25, 2008Read more Entertainment , Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Mobile phones , Online , TV , iPhone
Just days after announcing plans to offer Beeb programmes as £1.89 downloads on iTunes [which not everyone is best pleased about] it’s bringing its online catch-up TV service, iPlayer, to the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Considering Mac users have been overlooked somewhat with the first version of iPlayer, this will surely come as welcome news, especially since it will be free. The only niggle is that the downloads will only be accessible through Wi-Fi, not EDGE networks. Still the BBC has a deal with The Cloud to allow free access to the iPlayer content. The extension of iPlayer to the Touch and iPhone is expected in the next few weeks. So far, iPlayer has been a runaway success for the Beeb, with 11million downloads and streams from more than 2 million people, in January alone.-Martin Lynch Post a new comment |
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There’s far too many ‘i’-prefixed words knocking about as it is these days but you can blame the BBC for the next sentence.
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So let me get this straight. I will be able to use my iPhone to view this stuff. So like on my Mac then? If I'm near WiFi then I'm at home or in the office. Both places have computers that are more than capable of running iPlayer and there's one more thing... oh yes, they have bigger screens. On the train, bus or aircraft, when I would use my iPhone there is no WiFi. Do these people actually think about what they are doing or is it all Front, to get attention?
Mr Mouse...the BBC has a deal with The Cloud from 02 so you'll be able to access this content wherever there is a wireless "cloud" availiable. I'm able to access the cloud in Charing Cross station (they have a deal with Tru-Fone for free voip) amongst other places.
What keeps getting me is all this iPhone centric nonsense. There are tens of millions of people out there with other phones JUST as capable of streaming content and a few hundred thousand iPhone here in the UK...so you build a service for the iPhone...that makes sence, that the majority of peoples licence fee should go to imporoving the phone experience of so few. My Nokia N95 (which has outsold iPhones here in the UK) has Realplayer and Flash and even Divx playback...why an iPhone only service?
Well I'd say that this tells us that Apple *will* announce the release of the iPhone SDK tomorrow.
The BBC won't be streaming content to the iPhone using the current web interface as it doesn't support Flash. I'd say that there will be a BBC iPlayer application for the iPhone very soon!
Agreed, this will be a youtube style app, unless a flash player is going to drop soon? Either way it's good news for us brits, i wonder if americans will get a similar service through their networks?
Tes - there may be more N95s out there but iPhones represent a disproportionately large amount of overall mobile web traffic, even in the UK. Once they've made the choice to make it WiFi-only for bandwidth purposes, it'd be a fairly safe assumption that aiming at iPhone users first (rather than Windows Mobile/Symbian users with handsets that happen to have WiFi) is going to make the mobile version of iPlayer stick most effectively.
Tes, the problem with the Cloud is that it is static but when I'm travelling I am not. I would have thought that most people who are static will be at home or at work/school. And in those places you may as well use a computer with a larger screen. The whole point about personal media players (like the iPod for example), is that you can take them with you on the bus, the plane, the train, etc. Those places don't have The Cloud!
I still don't see who will plonk themselves down on a station concorse or in a pub/cafe for up to an hour to watch TV. You may as well go home and sit on your own sofa and not have to pay for expensive coffee or beer.
WiFi in the UK is not a solution for mobile internet. 3G is, such as web'n'walk, and it work very well but not on iPhones/iTouch (or on operators like Orange who will fleece you for every MB you use).
I am seriously confused ... the iPlayer on the PC can download and hold a programme for up to 30 days. That means I can get something on a laptop, tablet or whatever, and watch it at my leisure. Is that the type of service that is being spoken about for the iPlayer on the iPhone, or is it just an extension to a web page that means that the Safari browser on the iPhone can handle a streamed download (view at that moment and then it's gone)? The second scenario is not the same service as the iPlayer on the PC, it's the same service as the browser delivered BBC content on the Mac. In that case, I agree, it's not so useful doing anything but watching TV in bed without disturbing anyone .... hmmmmmmm
But I might just be missing teh installer for a iPhone app ... in which case can someone point it out to me please,