BBC iPlayer Launched - Today
The BBC have today launched their new iPlayer.
The BBC iPlayer is a free catch-up service for UK licence fee payers, you will be able to watch your favourite programs from all the BBC’s network TV channels will be available to download over the Internet, and watch on your PC without advertising for up to a week after transmission.”
Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, said: “This is a significant moment, as it heralds a new era when viewers will have the freedom to watch programmes from the BBC’s linear TV channels when they want.
“It’s a revolutionary service which offers audiences more value, because from now on they never have to miss out on their favourite programmes – or those that they didn’t previously have the opportunity to try.”
At launch, once viewers have accessed BBC iPlayer at bbc.co.uk/iplayer and have downloaded a programme, they will have up to 30 days in which to watch it. Once watched, the programme file clears itself up by deleting itself.
There has been a lot of controversy around the BBC’s new iPlayer as initially it will only be available to Windows only platforms, and an e-petition on the Downing Street website which calls on the British parliament to stop the BBC from launching its iPlayer without support for other platforms, has already received 10,000 signatures.
The BBC have responded to this with the new that a Mac compatible player will be available some time in the Autumn.
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