SubscribeBBC’s “as big a milestone as the arrival of color TV”, the iPlayer
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on August 9th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The BBC recently launched iPlayer a software that let’s UK residents download broadcasted contents and watch them on their computer up to 30 days after their original broadcast. After a month, or once contents been watched, they delete themselves.
The launch of this new service “as big a milestone as the arrival of color TV” according to the BBC, was met with over 10.000 complaints (Via Digg). The reason of the complaints: the iPlayer is a Windows only software, which basically gives Microsoft the control of all the official online distribution of BBC contents.
Considering the alternatives, some feel (Via Digg) that using Microsoft’s traditionaly closed technologies and the restraints they’ve put on the consumption of the media contents work against the BBC’s trust mission and objectives.
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