Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 23:12 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on Monday 14 January 2008 05:17 : \____
>>>
>>>> Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>>>> "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> The BBC Director General, Mark Thomson, is interrogated by the House of
>>>>>> Commons Public Accounts Committee, over why the BBC wasted 20 million
>>>>>> UKP on the iPlayer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1XIwSB27A (8 minutes)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Partial transcript:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dr. Pugh : So at what stage will we be able to fully *download* and
>>>>>> stream to a Mac or a Linux computer?
>>>>
>>>>> "download and stream"?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, download AND stream.
>>>
>>> Mind you, I'm 90% certain that the BBC even considered .NET for streaming
>>> (Silverlight), based on the Register and the Observer (or was it another
>>> publication?).
>>>
>>
>> I'm sure they did...
>
> I can only imagine (and did at the time) they they steered away from it because
> their job was already at risk.
The only thing we can do is to keep highlighting this. You can even see
from the Microsoft Trolls here how much effort MS and the BBC are
prepared to put in in order to avoid the public at large realising what
a colossal waste of their money the Silverlight/iPlayer has been.
>
>>>>>> Thomson : You can do that now
>>>>>> Dr. Pugh : Both of them?
>>>>>> Thomson : Yeah
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *LIE!*
>>>>
>>>>> You can stream now.
>>>>
>>>> So what?
>>>
>>> Will people have the money spent on iPlayer back? Why does Windows get a
>>> 'fast lane' with high-quality video?
>>>
>>
>> No, that money, that licence-fee cash, is now in a Microsoft bank
>> account, and will never come back. This was a culpable waste of public
>> funds, and those responsible should be looking for alternative
>> employment. This was not a few quid, it was £100 millions.
>
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