Tag : bbc

Thanks to the Telegraph for this gem from a senior TV exec talking about another six month delay to the launch of Youview, the £35m JV between BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five, TalkTalk, BT and Arquiva: 

"It just doesn't work when you turn it on and keeps crashing. 

"You would think that after at least 18 months of development and at least six million pounds worth of investment from each shareholder, the box would actually work when being shown to its owners." 

Tags: BBC, Ofcom, waterfall, clusterfuck

It’s news we have expected for a while, and it’s here in big bold BETA. The BBC IPlayer Desktop is going to let you download IPlayer video to watch offline at a later date (well within 7 days as it’s using Flash Digital Rights Management Server to protect the catch-up window).

Iplayer, Hulu, Vimeo and Youtube have made it manifestly evident that TV is facing a huge challenge from the web, not just for revenues and mindshare but also as an alternative channel to market. But it’s not just a quantitative ‘cheap and many’ channels issue; there’s likely to be a profound qualitative change in how we watch television that threatens the value of things that conventional TV people hold as given: things like scheduling, channel brands and the primacy of television commissioning.