The BBC wants to give its viewers a way to catch-up on shows that have aired a few weeks ago, and also plans expanding support for Google’s Chromecast streaming stick.
The BBC is ending a trial to expand its streaming app iPlayer globally, saying that there’s just too much competition from services like Netflix and Amazon. Instead, the BBC wants international users to watch video at BBC.com.
The BBC has announced its fourth director general in eight months. But what will ‘digital pioneer’ Tony Hall do with the internet? He would do well to follow George Entwistle’s plan that so delighted digital champions.
The New York Times is looking to BBC director-general Mark Thompson to steer it toward a digital news future. But who is Thompson, and what do his eight years’ UK public service leadership say about the man coming to Manhattan?
Users of Sony’s PS3 can now access a special TV version of the BBC’s iPlayer, complete with a navigation optimized for remote controls, personalization and video overlays. The new iPlayer is based on HTML5, showing how important the emerging standard is to the connected-TV world.
After endless development and lobbying from fans around the world, the BBC has finally opened up an international version of the iPlayer — its smash hit video-on-demand service — for European subscribers. But will it make the grade as other video subscription services expand?
Boxee provided a London audience with the first look at its new iPad app today, which will be submitted for review to Apple very soon. Boxee also celebrated the launch of the iPlayer and a cooperation with VOD provider Blinkbox.
Adobe’s RTMP live streaming protocol was one of the biggest winners of the Royal Wedding, according to a new report from traffic management specialist Sandvine. That means that most live streams were likely watched in Flash. Twitter, Facebook and the BBC’s iPlayer also saw huge demand.
The BBC wants to bring personal video recommendations to its iPlayer catch-up service, and it’s been testing a number of methods and algorithms as part of a multiyear research project. The broadcaster just finished a final field test, and its lessons learned are worth a look.
The BBC’s iPlayer is on a roll, accumulating almost 1.4 billion media requests in the first 11 months of 2010. However, most of the video viewing happens on PC screens. Mobile phones, iPads and connected devices barely contribute a blip to the iPlayer’s overall usage stats.
Today, the BBC announced plans to create a global version of its iPlayer application for iPads, which may be available first in the U.S. on a subscription basis. For British television fans outside the UK tracking their favorite shows, this is very good news indeed.
The British Broadcasting Corporation’s online video effort, the iPlayer, keeps setting viewership records with the youngest generation contributing to the UK dominating…
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During the Olympics, the iPlayer accounted for nearly 20 percent of the total broadband traffic in the UK, and at present has garnered about 10 percent of the total UK broadband audience. That number is likely to rise with the release of the iPlayer for the Mac, which is due out this month.
Kontiki, an early commercial peer-to-peer platform provider, formally acknowledged today that VeriSign has sold the company back to its investors at MK…