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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.
IPTV on Xbox 360
March 23, 2007
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is basically TV programming delivered over broadband to your computer or TV. This would normally be done using a separate box connected to your TV for instance, however later this year there will be another option - high definition TV streamed over the internet through your cheap Xbox 360!
There’s a couple of very informative videos over at GameDrift and Gizmodo that help to demonstrate the power of this IPTV system.
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