BBC and Online Television such as the iPlayer service

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Online Video To Overtake Broadcast TV By 2020? | Google TV, Canvas Will Blur The Lines

Online video is still, relatively speaking, in its infancy. But it growing more popular, and the choices available to viewers are...
Dave Parrack
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Blinkbox TV & Movie Streaming Comes To PS3 As Xbox 360 Owners Fight For BBC iPlayer

While PS3 owners have now gained a new way of streaming TV shows and movies to their consoles with Blinkbox, Xbox...
Dave Parrack
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BBC iPlayer 3.0 On Way | Social Network Integration With Facebook, Twitter At Core

The BBC iPlayer is about to undergo another metamorphosis, its second since inception. The BBC iPlayer 3.0 is going to have...
Dave Parrack
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SeeSaw Launches As Free U.K.-Based Hulu | Pay-Per-View, Subscription Options On Way

SeeSaw has now arrived, having left its short beta and launched fully for anyone resident in the U.K. to use. More...
Dave Parrack
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SeeSaw Beta Review | Can Arqiva’s One-Stop Shop Play Nicely With iPlayer, 4oD and Hulu?

SeeSaw, formerly the BBC’s Kangaroo, has now entered beta testing, with a full launch planned in the next few weeks. What...
Dave Parrack
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SeeSaw Beta Begins As Invite-Only | New Content Deals In Place As Arqiva Plans Launch

SeeSaw, Arqiva’s attempt to create something similar to what the BBC had hoped to do, has now entered a private, invite-only...
Dave Parrack
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BBC iPlayer Hits 100 Million Monthly Requests – BBC Trust Set To Review On-Demand Service

The BBC iPlayer continues to go from strength to strength. Not only is it a brilliantly conceived and run, user-friendly service,...
Dave Parrack
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Can BBC Project Canvas Possibly Succeed When Connected TV Platforms Are Everywhere?

Project Canvas, the BBC-led IPTV offering for a Web TV future, finally got BBC Trust approval in December. But it still...
Dave Parrack
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BBC iPlayer Stats | ‘Top Gear’ Most Watched Show, iPhone & Wii Providing Non-PC Use

The BBC iPlayer has now been with us for two whole years, and in that time has grown in usability and...
Dave Parrack
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BBC Trust Approves Project Canvas | BBC, ITV, BT, Five, Channel 4, & TalkTalk All On Board

In what is an early Christmas present to lovers of online video in the U.K., the BBC Trust has approved the...
Dave Parrack
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BBC Red Tape Delays Project Canvas Until 2011 | Murdoch’s BSkyB Launches Fresh Attack

As soon as Project Kangaroo was killed at birth the BBC began work on Project Canvas. This is a bigger, bolder...
Dave Parrack
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BBC iPlayer Wins RTS Innovation Award, Gets Dedicated Channel On Nintendo Wii Console

The BBC iPlayer continues to go from strength to strength. Last week saw the service win the Judges’ Award at the...
Dave Parrack
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Should The BBC Charge For The iPlayer? | Ex-Exec Ashley Highfield Argues It Should Do

The BBC iPlayer service is currently free to all residents of the United Kingdom. But should the BBC start charging now...
Dave Parrack
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Sky News Online For All As Canvas Criticism Published | Murdoch A Fan Of Free After All?

BSkyB is giving one hand while taking with the other, or at least trying to take with the other. While Sky...
Dave Parrack
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BBC Worldwide Planning Global iPlayer | Doctor Who, Top Gear On Overseas VoD Service

It looks as though BBC Worldwide is planning an overseas video on demand service which could be branded as the global...
Dave Parrack
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BBC Open iPlayer For All | Catch-Up Television On-Demand For All, Even International Viewers

The BBC iPlayer is a quantified success, persuading and enabling millions of British viewers to use an online catch-up television service....
Dave Parrack
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Watching BBC iPlayer On PS3 | Firmware V3.0 Integration Increases Viewer Share To 10%

The PS3 is a brilliant games console. The BBC iPlayer is a brilliant catch-up television service. And now that the two...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Online Video Driving Broadband Sales | BBC iPlayer Viewing Figures Increase To 5 Million

Online video is becoming a very mainstream, must-have part of daily life for millions of people. Especially in the U.K. Which...
Dave Parrack
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Arqiva Buys Kangaroo Infrastructure | Free & Pay-To-View Video On Demand Service On Way

Project Kangaroo has been dead for a while now, but the technology, infrastructure, and branding were all up for sale. Orange...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Free TV Streaming Inspired by Spotify & Last.fm | Personal Radio Killing Illegal Music Downloads

There is evidence to suggest that the wave of new music streaming services are directly influencing the number of illegal music...
Dave Parrack
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BT Threatens BBC iPlayer, YouTube Etc. | Pay Up Or Else Face Bandwidth Throttling

ISPs have been showing concern for the amount of bandwidth used by online video for some time now. However, the first...
Dave Parrack
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International BBC iPlayer On Way? | BBC and Google Rumored To Be Having Discussions

Could an International version of the BBC iPlayer be on the way? Possibly, if rumors of talks happening between Google and...
Dave Parrack
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Full-Length Shows Coming To YouTube UK? | The Kings Of Short-form Look To Long-form

YouTube has, for a long time, been the king of short-form content. And despite various pretenders to its crown, this looks...
Dave Parrack
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Would You Pay To Use The BBC iPlayer? | Catch-Up Service Not Covered By TV License

The BBC iPlayer is currently a free service to all those living in the UK. However, that could be about to...
Dave Parrack
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Online Video To Cause Internet Brownouts From 2010? | Blame YouTube & BBC iPlayer

The growth in online video, both in popularity and the number of services available, has been great to see. And it’s...
Dave Parrack
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BBC iPlayer Goes HD | Desktop Download Manager Welcomes Mac and Linux To The Party

The BBC iPlayer is constantly evolving to better suit the needs of its users. The latest innovation – high-definition programming, just...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Project Canvas Edges Closer | The BBC, ITV, & BT Plan Internet-enabled Set-top Boxes

Project Kangaroo, the joint project between the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, may be dead, after having been killed off by...
Dave Parrack
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Competition Commission Kills Kangaroo | Joint BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 Venture Dead

Project Kangaroo, the joint venture from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 to bring online video to the masses, have been...
Dave Parrack
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Web TV Wire 2008 Review | A Year In Online Video

2008 has now seamlessly morphed into 2009 and we’re all a year older, and maybe even a year wiser. But what...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Tiered ISP Charges For Internet Video? | BBC Considers Charging For High Quality iPlayer

We may all love watching television and video on the Internet, but the technology allowing us to do so doesn’t come...
Dave Parrack
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