bbc iplayer
BBC iPlayer (UK)
August 5, 2008
Having recently put together a new Home Theatre PC (HTPC), I’ve been looking at the various options that I have with new TV entertainment services, the latest of which is the BBC’s iPlayer UK service.
It seems to have taken a while in actually arriving as I’m sure that this service was first talked about a year or two back, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from it, especially after having already tried the Channel 4 On Demand application that downloads TV shows – however this isn’t always free and the fact that they were charging for something I could see for free on the TV wasn’t something that I was too happy about.
The BBC iPlayer comes in two different formats;
- a streaming online service accessable through the BBC website.
- a downloadable application which downloads the shows prior to viewing.
