Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> [Just adding new/different information here]
>
> The corruption continues, but they try to embellish it in the press. Not
> everyone is blind.
>
> BBC iPlayer goes cross-platform with Flash, downloading still limited to
> Windows
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| When BBC's iPlayer "catch-up" TV service entered a public beta over the
>| summer, it was immediately criticized for supporting only Windows. It looks
>| like Mac and Linux users will soon be getting in on the DRMed iPlayer fun, as
>| Adobe and the BBC announced today that the network will use Flash to deliver
>| video to the non-Windows-using British public.
> `----
>
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071016-bbc-iplayer-goes-cross-platform-with-flash-downloading-still-limited-to-windows.html
>
> BBC offers stripped-down iPlayer for Macs and Linux
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| However, it falls a long way short of the full download service offered to
>| Windows XP owners.
> `----
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/130223/bbc-offers-strippeddown-iplayer-for-macs-and-linux.html
>
> Contrariwise, with Napster's new service, there's no such discrimination.
>
I suppose that it's a step in the right direction, and we should
consider this to be something of a victory for Licence Fee Payers over
the ex-Microsoft employees at the BBC who've been keen to shovel as much
money as possible to Microsoft (was it £60 millions?) for something
which can only ever support an incomplete proportion of the population,
and particularly, almost none of the population in a non-fixed
environment. The iPlayer looks so much like a 1980s solution for a
2000s problem.
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