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1. University Update - Microsoft Windows - BBC iPlayer Beta Launches Today | Service Criticised Over Reliability and Late Arrival Says:

   July 30th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

   [...] YouTube Contact the Webmaster Link to Article microsoft windows BBC iPlayer Beta Launches Today | Service Criticised Over Reliability and Late Arrival » Posted at Web TV Wire » The Business of Internet Television and Video on Monday, July 30, 2007 This article contains copywritten material. Please click on the "View Original Article" link below to view the article on the author’s site. View Original Article » [...]

2. University Update - Open Source - BBC iPlayer Beta Launches Today | Service Criticised Over Reliability and Late Arrival Says:

   July 30th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

   [...] YouTube Contact the Webmaster Link to Article open source BBC iPlayer Beta Launches Today | Service Criticised Over Reliability and Late Arrival » Posted at Web TV Wire » The Business of Internet Television and Video on Monday, July 30, 2007 This article contains copywritten material. Please click on the "View Original Article" link below to view the article on the author’s site. View Original Article » [...]

3. Stripping DRM From BBC iPlayer, Amazon Unbox, Zune, Walmart Downloads » Web TV Wire Says:

   August 4th, 2007 at 8:26 am

   [...] This includes Zune Marketplace Downloads, Walmart Downloads, Amazon UnBox, BBC iPlayer files and even your local library file downloads. [...]

4. BBC iPlayer Popularity Causes UK ISPs Concern » Web TV Wire Says:

   August 13th, 2007 at 3:02 am

   [...] BBC iPlayer Popularity Causes UK ISPs Concern Posted in: News, Web TV Stations, Video on Demand, Broadband Video Companies and BBC by Clayton Moulynox It’s been reported that some of the UK’s major ISPs are threatening to shape network traffic generated by the BBC’s iPlayer as their concerns grow that hundreds of thousands of users will put a huge strain on their broadband networks. There’s a suggestion that some of the ISP’s, including Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, would welcome the BBC contributing funds, presumably to assist with network upgrades, which would then circumvent the need to limit bandwidth. Representatives from BT and Tiscali both acknowledged that this was a very real and current debate between ISPs and the BBC. The Internet Service Providers Association has also been dragged in to the debate, but is yet to provide a united front for the ISPs. The iPlayer allows viewers to download about 60% of the BBC’s weekly TV schedule on a seven day catch-up basis. [...]

5. BBC iPlayer Increasing Popularity Of Online TV | 1.5 Billion Downloads Estimated For 2008 » Web TV Wire Says:

   February 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

   [...] When the iPlayer was originally announced and released in a public beta last year, the BBC were criticised for only offering the service to people using Windows based operating systems. [...]

6. BBC iPlayer 2.0 Arrives | New Features Galore For New Version Of Free TV Service » Web TV Wire Says:

   June 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

   [...] I’ve been a big fan of the BBC iPlayer ever since it first launched this time last year. And so it is with great delight to now find that the BBC have given the free Web TV service a rebuild. [...]

7. The Future Of The BBC iPlayer | True Multi-Platform Downloads and International Viewing Says:

   November 8th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

   [...] BBC has done a fantastic job of entering the world of online video with its television catch-up service, the BBC iPlayer, but the service is not without its problems, [...]

8. BBC iPlayer Comes to Mac and Linux Computers | ISP Bandwidth Solution Underway Says:

   December 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

   [...] the beta launched in July, 2007, there was widespread condemnation that the service was only available to people [...]

9. BBC iPlayer Goes HD | Desktop Download Manager Welcomes Mac and Linux To The Party Says:

   April 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm

   [...] iPlayer was already an impressive service when it originally launched. But thanks to improvements and additions constantly being made, the BBC is managing to turn it [...]

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