Sky has announced that the BBC iPlayer and ITV Player on demand services will roll out to Sky customers later this year, as part of an ongoing expansion of the Anytime+ on demand feature. The services will be available to up to 5 million Sky+HD customers direct through their living room TV.
Amazon-owned Lovefilm has signed a major new deal with the BBC and ITV to provide its online streaming arm a much-needed shot full of juicy content. Read more
If you popped Radio 4 on this morning, chances are the famous Today programme filled your living room. From the dulcet tones of wounded politicians to atrocious racing tips, the morning news magazine is arguably British radio’s most well-known show, with 7.18 million listeners a week according to the latest RAJAR figures.
But did you know that as well as excoriating slippery MPs, the tech behind Today, and Radio 4, plays a key part in the defence of Britain’s shores? Read on and we’ll tell you just how Humphrys and co keep our boys in the loop about any attacks on Blighty.
Right, guys, remember that Doctor Who: Worlds In Time massively multiplayer online game we told you was coming earlier this year? Yeah, we’ve got loads more details on it now, but you have to promise not to shoot the messenger. This game isn’t some sonic screwdriver-based rival to The Old Republic. It’s a Flash-based game with a business model lifted straight out of Zynga’s playbook.
Netflix has announced that it’ll be stocking a variety of BBC shows when it launches in the UK, marking the first time that non-commercial beeb content has been available to stream outside of the BBC iPlayer. Read more
The BBC has made your Christmas telly-watching dreams come true, assuming you own an iPhone or iPod touch. It’s just released an app, very similar to its iPad version, which lets you watch telly shows and listen to radio programmes via 3G on all mobile networks. No more huffing and puffing around the family gogglebox for you this December!
Doctor Who is set to star in a trilogy of big console games, the BBC has revealed. Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is the first game in the proposed series, being developed by SuperMassiveGames – who’s previous credits include add-on DLC kits for LittleBigPlanet. Read more
Deep down, I knew this was going to happen. Rumours had been swirling for weeks that BBC iPlayer wouldn’t be working at full capacity on the Xbox 360’s new TV service. But the official confirmation that the service won’t land on Microsoft’s console until ‘early 2012’ is nothing short of infuriating. I’m sure that when it does launch, it’ll work like a dream. But the fact is we’ve been waiting far too long for this to happen. Microsoft needs to buck its ideas up if it wants to prove that it’s capable of offering a service to rival the PS3, Boxee Box, Apple TV and even the Nintendo Wii.
