BBC Channels on the Internet
27-08-2005, 19:52
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BBC Channels on the Internet
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The BBC's TV channels will be made available on the internet, BBC Director General Mark Thompson has confirmed.
He announced plans for the MyBBCPlayer - which will allow viewers to legally download seven days of programmes - at the Edinburgh Television Festival.
He said he hoped the site would launch next year.
Mr Thompson said that unless the BBC adapted "we won't deserve or get licence-fee funding beyond 2016... that is very definitely not our plan".
A simulcast of BBC One or BBC Two, letting UK viewers see programmes on the web at the same time as they go out on TV, is also planned.
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Well it looks like things are gonna be getting interesting soon.
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27-08-2005, 21:17
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
now perhaps it will be BBC programmes rather than Linux ISOs that everyone is downloading........ 
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27-08-2005, 21:18
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
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Well it looks like things are gonna be getting interesting soon.
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Agreed Paul.
Maybe a good test of the 10 meg NTL service when it rolls out?
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27-08-2005, 21:24
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
There goes my 75 Gigs per month then 
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27-08-2005, 23:34
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
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now perhaps it will be BBC programmes rather than Linux ISOs that everyone is downloading........ |
the good old bbc
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27-08-2005, 23:36
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Oh, the good ol' school memories
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28-08-2005, 20:01
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umm nothing new about streaming, various tv companies do it worldwide, and I use approx 40gig a month on streaming.
BBC are palying catchup and its about time, I have been ****ed about paying the licence fee and not having bbc3 and other digital only channels.
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05-10-2005, 15:39
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
Oooh, looks like the trials have begun. Here's some screenshots one of the trialists has put online...
http://www.thomasscott.net/imp-screenshots/
Check out the quality of Basil Brush 
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05-10-2005, 16:22
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
Looks like the beta testing starts at the end of the month.
Wonder if I've been chosen?
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05-10-2005, 16:39
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
From those screens the IMP software has not changed much since the trial I took part in last year.
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06-10-2005, 00:51
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
Looks good. Seems that me invitation will never be confirmed, though. 
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06-10-2005, 21:19
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
I hope they using a better codec then they use now, I remember emailing bbc about their poor quality totp broadband clips, realplayer codec is no match for xvid and I also pointed out that by today's broadband standards 384kbkt and 256kbit are very low streaming rates.
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07-10-2005, 00:07
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Re: BBC Channels on the Internet
This is why they're looking at multicast and unicast, I believe. 
However, there has been a marked improvement to the Question Time 'watch again' thing-me-jig. Dunno what they've done to it, but it's much better for the (normally) sombre camera work used on the show (apart from the panning of the studio - that's a nightmare for the streams).
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