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Fixed BBC IPlayer Hacked Again
News Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection. BBC News proudly announced the BBC's victory over those of us who had figured...
[March 14, 2008, 16:00]
BBC Launches IPlayer 2.0 Beta
News The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to make it more appealing and easier to use. It seems calls for the BBC to pay for extra bandwidth used by iPlayer have abated.
[June 26, 2008, 8:49]
BBC Fixes Hack Loophole In IPlayer
News The BBC has issued a fix for a loophole that allowed hackers to download unrestricted content from its iPlayer online TV service. The download version of iPlayer was launched in beta form last summer before being joined by a streaming version when...
[March 14, 2008, 8:59]
Online TV Blamed For Choking Broadband Networks
News Specifically, the recent surge of interest in the BBC's iPlayer online, on-demand TV service raised this issue following a massive 3.5 million programmes being streamed or downloaded in the two weeks following its marketing launch alone.
[January 29, 2008, 8:42]
BBC Threatens IPlayer Hackers With Mild Annoyance
Blog With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, the BBC's iPlayer has provoked a chain of events with as much predictability as a Bond movie. Hence the iPlayer, which delivers TV to people's computers.
[June 9, 2008, 11:42]
BBC To Stream Channel Live
Blog Comment With respect to Ofcom's recent decision that ISP's etc.should bear the costs of BBC's iPlayer, I do not agree this was necessarily the correct decision. My immediate concern is the effect on my broadband service {already subject to considerable...
[June 9, 2008, 14:53]
BBC Proposes ISP 'broadband Charter'
News Highfield claimed broadband usage has "changed beyond recognition" since the BBC iPlayer received its full launch on Christmas Day last year, contributing to a significant growth in people watching TV on the web.
[April 7, 2008, 8:50]
BBC To Stream Channel Live
Blog Comment You can watch iPlayer content without a licence, as long as it is not "live" content. So the new service as and when it arrives will need a licence, but the current iPlayer doesn't. And the iPlayer FAQs reveal the kind of nonsensical detail that we...
[June 9, 2008, 9:18]
Precisely!
Talkback And what *is* the market for something like the iPlayer? No, by far the bigger market for something like the iPlayer is: The 'market share' arguments sound a little hollow unless you subscribe to the 'whole world is the PC' religion that Microsoft...
[July 25, 2007, 15:56]
So *who* Made It *completely* Locked-in To Microsoft?
Talkback What *is* the market for something like the iPlayer? No, by far the bigger market for something like the iPlayer is: The 'market share' arguments sounds untirely hollow unless you have been brainwashed (or paid to appear that way) by the 'whole...
[July 26, 2007, 9:50]
Oh, For **** Sake!!
Talkback I signed up for the beta BBC iPlayer and downloaded a TV programme. I'm confused. What crack? It.s a .wmv file that plays perfectly in Windows Media Player. Are you suggesting this file is going to self-destruct in some way?
[August 13, 2007, 10:09]
No Licence Is Required To Watch Iplayer In The UK
Talkback News24 via the BBC website, but is not required to watch 'catch up' ITV, or BBC iplayer programmes. BBC have stated that the number of people without TV Licences and with High Speed Broadband is extremely small, that it is currently not an issue...
[March 17, 2008, 10:20]
This Could Help The BBC
Talkback In principle, this crack makes it possible for iPlayer content to be made available for all computing platforms. Ironically, this could actually help the BBC, who have been heavily critisized for funding a system out of the TV license that will be...
[July 18, 2007, 9:01]
IPlayer Enjoys 'wonderful Start' To 2008
News More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online, on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after Christmas Day. Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC, said the corporation thought...
[January 16, 2008, 11:06]
BBC Must Switch On To PC Switch Off
Blog Forgetting why with the likes of iPlayer people would need their own TV at work, this all means that many BBC staff are leaving several devices on over night for weeks at a time presumably. I met a BBC staffer last night and we got talking about a...
[September 7, 2008, 22:43]
BBC To Stream Channel Live
Blog As if the iPlayer wasn't enough. The BBC is either forging bravely ahead into the future of TV-less TV, or simply enjoying sticking the knife into ISPs. According to, er, the Daily Wail (not my usual source, I swear), Auntie is to start streaming...
[June 6, 2008, 16:25]
MAX Europe
Blog The Beeb has adopted Flash Player software to drive its free catch-up TV service BBC iPlayer - available as a streaming service across Macintosh and Linux, as well as Windows, by the end of year. Big news on day two is Abobe’s new relationship with...
[October 16, 2007, 11:30]
Adobe Moves To Allay Video Security Fears
News In the wake of repeated hacks to the BBC's iPlayer, security concerns surrounding online video content delivery are high. However, both the BBC and Adobe have asserted that protecting media content is a fundamental part of developing next...
[March 19, 2008, 15:52]
BBC Launches IPlayer Service For Macs And Linux
News A streaming version of the BBC's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. The streaming version of iPlayer will have new features such as the ability to share programme links, password...
[December 17, 2007, 7:50]
BBC IPlayer Chalks Up 75m Downloads
News The BBC iPlayer online, on-demand TV service has hit 75 million in streamed or downloaded programmes since it launched last year. According to BBC figures, iPlayer enjoyed another month of growth in April, with around 21 million programme requests...
[May 21, 2008, 9:00]
