BBC Online Video Service
The BBC online video service had been launched recently. It offers viewership a wide variety of their fave TV shows and programms to be downloaded.
By the way, BBC’s director general Mark Thompson is proud of iPlayer that allows users a set of benefits. BBC’s iPlayer went through a nine-month Public Value Test.
What should we wait from the new service? “If it had just launched it then it could have
blown the whole broadcast world away. Who knows what the impact would have been if it had come out before the rise of YouTube,” said Simon Perry, editor of online magazine Digital Lifestyles.
What opportunities does the service offer us at the moment?
- iPlayer will allow viewers to catch up on TV programmes for seven days
- Some TV series can be downloaded and stored for 30 days
- Viewers will be able to watch shows streamed live over the internet
- Users cannot download programmes from other broadcasters
- Classical recordings and book-readings are excluded from iPlayer
By 2012 the analogue TV signal will be switched off in the UK. Does it mean BBC is getting ready to be fully armed? Quite possible. Nevertheless I don’t see any relevant changes in this respect.
Currently digital TV covers at least 50 % of the globe. Digital TV can be sent through an aerial, satellite, cable or phone line.
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