RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

[Andrew Bowden]

 



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        On 26/06/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

                
                You're kidding, right?

                         
                        The service on Virgin isn't the iplayer, it's
implemented via Virgin's existing service that already provides BBC
repeats that's been running for a couple of years now.  The same
document approved the service but it is NOT the iPlayer.  

                
                The PC TV download version part of it, is just one
aspect of iPlayer - it is not the entirity of it by any means.  The
intentions of iPlayer being a cross-platform product have been there for
a long time - even looking at how a service could be made available on
Freeview.

        
        
        Not on the product I betatested...  You have conflated other
products into the iPlayer. 

I haven't done anything of the sort.  The BBC has a plan for a range of
products which are the iPlayer.  The iPlayer you are thinking of is just
one part of that plan.
 
It is true that the PC download aspect is the one that has caught the
headlines.  However even the PC version of iPlayer is more than just
downloads - it involves streaming and podcasts too.