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Old 01-05-2008, 10:10   #30
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Re: BBC iPlayer now available via Red Button

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Originally Posted by simon8298 View Post
i can see why they have done this... makes good sense... but after all the crap they been saying about iplayer using up too much bandwidth on virgins broadband network i think they have done this to save them selves a few quid you might remember virgin saying not all that long ago that they wanted to charge bbc to let the customers download as much as they would like!!
I think you will find the BBC have content delivery servers within VM's network to aid the delivery of VOD content. This also serves the online Iplayer as far as im aware thus reducing the network load by hosting the streams locally within VM's network.

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