Geekanoids: BBC iPlayer - iPod touch friendly!

BBC iPlayer - iPod touch friendly!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

After following the ups and downs of the BBC's support for the Apple Mac platform (yes, I even signed the petition), I was amazed at my discovery yesterday. Many of the on-demand TV services are not that friendly with the Mac, so when I learned that the BBC were developing support for our beloved Macs, I was really pleased.

Just last night I found myself browsing the internet with my iPod touch. When I went onto the BBC iPlayer site, to see if there were any updated news on Mac support, I clicked on a programme just to see what happened. To my surprise, Quicktime stepped in and played the programme. Perfectly formatted for the iPod touch screen, I could now watch the last seven days of television, via wi-fi on my touch. OK, so some of the programmes are not available, but that is down to the BBC and not the particular device being used to watch. The couple I did watch showed a perfect picture and nice speed buffering, so no pauses or skips. This may well be old news that had skipped my radar, but I wanted to shout out a big 'THANK YOU' to the BBC... let's hope the other channels follow.

Labels: Opinion

posted 21:05,

6 Comments:

At 5:04 pm, Unknown said...: This doesn't work in the US.
At 6:29 am, Anonymous said...: at least bbc radio works
At 9:00 pm, Anonymous said...: well gill, theres so much over here that isnt avaible in the uk, like why brits aren't able to watch videos of the EUROPEAN music awards (mtv), filmed in LIVERPOOL!
At 7:17 pm, Zoe said...: I cant even get iplayer. It just comes up with a blank screen. Help me
At 9:45 pm, Tom said...: I had this problem too. I resolved it by going to "Settings" on my iTouch. Selecting "Safari" and turning on JavaScript.
Worked perfectly after that.
Tom
At 11:50 pm, Anonymous said...: Tried on the Touch (3.0) with Safari in the USA. Rejects attempts to play TV and Radio due to location. I understood it might not play TV but it should play Radio. Any settings I should change?

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