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.
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!
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.
Microsoft’s much-vaunted Xbox 360 Live TV update rolls out around the globe tomorrow. And there’s a nasty surprise in store for us Brits: BBC iPlayer will be absent from the start, with no launch planned until ‘early 2012’ according to official listings. So, what will you actually be able to watch from the get go? Read on and find out.
When the Apple TV second generation model launched last year, we berated it for a lack of UK services. In particular, BBC iPlayer was a glaring omission, given its appearance on just about every other internet TV, set top box and games console. Now, a year on from launch, it’s finally getting Auntie on-demand – but only if you have an iPad.
The BBC has launched a new version of the iPlayer tailored to TV screens. After unveiling the international iPlayer, Auntie has turned its attentions back to the UK with the remote-control-friendly redesign which is debuting today on the PS3. While iPlayer hit the living room via Virgin Media in 2008, the new design is the first to be specifically geared to TV screens.
Read on for the features you’ll find baked in to the new iPlayer and word from the BBC about when other devices will be able to join the PS3 in the new and improved way of doling out time-shifted telly treats…
The BBC promised an international iPlayer service this year and today it has delivered. The first global iPlayer app is available in 11 European countries today and limited to the iPad. The move is part of a one-year pilot scheme that will expand to include the US, Canada and Australia later this year.
A global iPlayer app subscription costs either €6.99 (£6.14) a month or €49.99 (£44) for a full year, around a third of the cost of an annual UK licence fee. While the app shares the same look and feel as the domestic service, the way it works and the content it includes will be different.
Read on to discover what our European cousins will get for their cash including a major feature British viewers don’t have yet…