Thanks Jim, I guess for a lot of people iPlayer on a Virgin box is ideal balance between web content and the tv. Like how Tivo now supports RSS feeds to download video content. It is a real shame about the consoles, so much power and so locked up.
Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Tonge Sent: 09 December 2008 14:25 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online? personally, still haven't managed to get hulu working - please feel free to recommend a proxy/other method. reckon i'd use it a lot though. Joost lost my interest (and IMHO damaged their brand) with poor content and standalone player - haven't bothered with the in-browser version yet. ITV made a strange choice in using Silverlight - works OK on my PC but still crashes my Mac browsers. They just don't have the content though. iPlayer is great on the Wii if you use WiiPlayer <http://defaced.co.uk/wiiplayer/> to sort out the interface, fantastic through a browser, kind of pointless on an iPhone without access over 3G (though the recently-discovered TV-out framework could make for a useful native application). It'd be nice to access it through an Xbox 360 (a la netflix). DRM and Kontiki prevent me using DL content (ditto 4OD - i'd rather use, gasp, bittorrent). My PS3 toting-friend is overjoyed with iPlayer on his telly, whilst another with Virgin Media never uses it. Hulu notwithstanding, I think iPlayer's easily the best experience for professionally-produced content, and the ease and speed of use makes me choose it over the illegal method mentioned above every time.