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Originally Posted by dsmuk
Am surprised they haven't scrapped the multiscreen in favor of a BBC News iPlayer similar to the one on Virgin Central that can play the news loops on demand - or even all the videos available on the BBC News website.
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Indeed. I sometimes wonder whether the BBC Red Button team learnt
anything from
BBCi Hull.
Indeed, almost all of BBC RB on VM is a bit of a disappointment when you consider what the platform is capable of, but the exceptions - the Sport Multiscreen plus its associated text service, and iPlayer - perform so poorly that it's not difficult to understand why they don't seem interested in aiming for anything better than a state of not quite parity.
It's a shame, really - for all its archaicness (although, to be fair, play with the much more recent RenderCast and try to tell me
that's not significantly eccentric) VM's current platform
can be quite capable - but it's just
sooo damn slow when it comes to the clever stuff.
And anyway, I'm not sure why you'd even
want the multiscreen, as it is on exTW, because I personally think it's horrid - it's slow, picture quality leaves a lot to be desired, lip-sync is noticeably out and you can't access anything else from within the app.
Sam (who is wondering whether a concise "I agree" would have been sufficient!)