“Ever since I tried the BBC’s beta ‘integrated Media Player’ (iMP) software, I’ve been waiting for the day when the video download service will go live. Just imagine: the entire output of the BBC available, at the click of a button, to any UK viewer. It’s enough to make you proud to be a licence payer,” Tom Dunmore writes for Stuff Magazine.
“Assuming you have a Windows PC. And if you don’t? Get ready to wait,” Dunmore writes.
Dunmore writes, “To be fair, the BBC Trust has criticised the Windows Media Player plans, but it hasn’t forced a change – it’s merely said that a solution must be made available, and it would monitor the situation. The BBC, incidentally, claims it would be unworkable to make the service Mac and Linux compatible in the next two years.”
“I’m horrified. As a long-time Mac user – and license payer – I feel totally ignored by a corporation that is supposed to have a clear commitment to being inclusive,” Dunmore writes.
Full article here.
top gear top gear top gear…
PLEASE!
It’s the Beeb.
Really, what did you expect?
Oh, shnap. my first first. I weep.
When you make a deal with the Devil, in this case, Microsoft, you have to live with the consequences.
You have two choices.
1) You can switch from Mac OS X or Linux OS to Windows OS or buy a Windows PC.
2) You can very vocally demand the refund of your license payment.
Don’t support the BBC if the BBC won’t support you.
The BBC will make it’s player Mac-compatible
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/18/iplayer.coming.to.macs/
I read somewhere else (can’t find the link) that it will be within a ‘reasonable’ timeframe. No hard deadline has been set and I hope they use MPEG-4, H.264 standard =) Open standard, incredible scalable quality and other benefits.
He expects the BBC to be inclusive? Bhwhahahaha. *Wiping away tears of laughter*. Check out how “inclusive” the Beeb’s forums have been. And the Beeb can’t be bothered to include the views of Britons who refuse to preemptively surrender to Islamism. In short, the Beeb has never been “inclusive”, but rather “exclusive” for many years.
At a lecture last week the iPlayer was demo’ed. The admission was of it being released in two months (PC only) but with the Mac version maybe just a few months later. The delay may be due to DRM being trickier to manage on the Mac?.
The reference to two years may be over all the platform options, not just the iPlayer specifically.
The speaker was at pains to portray the BBC as platform agnostic – he presented from a Mac himself. They are already moving onto mobile platforms, the fabulous Freeview is now more popular than Murdoch’s Sky nonsense and the iPlayer will be free-to-air and cable too, as they say. YouTube now, Joost soon – all in an effort to ensure that everyone in the UK can receive what they want where they want on whatever they choose.
The iPlayer is not intended to be a revenue earner. It is a playback tool only, DRM limiting downloads to a to seven days lifespan. It is a logical extension to the radio service Listen Again tool.
MDN word: High as in High time people who don’t pay for the BBC stopped criticising it
Tried to find a contact or complaint button on the Trust site — and of course failed (por it may hav been me).
Either way, us fee payers are stuffed by MS loving Beeb.
Hrmph.
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Newest DivX beta has mac support for DRM (if we have to have DRM)
Also, neither Channel 4 nor BT Vision after Mac compatible VOD.
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Come here, let me enter you again with my man-love…
BITTORRENT
Two years?! Give me a break. Its like the clock just went backwards ten years for Mac users – Left hoping and waiting, what a load.
This is one of the consequences of Macs being able to run both Windows and OS X.
the bbc should stick to nature shows, they are very good at that.
It is the Ballmer Broadcasting Corporation.
Microsoft owns the BBC, not the British taxpayer.
From a post in a comment at the bottom of the story:
“I’ll also accept that a lot of Macs probably never go near the net. “
Was it, or was it not the silly pigs across the Atlantic that gave Steve all that grief because iTunes won’t play nice with other mp3 players?
Am I missing something?
Why isn’t this the same thing?
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oh, sorry, I get it now, when Steve does it it’s bad, when they do it, that’s just the way it is.
The BBC says that it can’t be sure of meeting the two year timescale because it needs the co-operation of the third party companies.
I hope that Apple is already working with the BBC. Apple should be making sure that the Mac version is released without undue delay and is a hell of a lot better than any other.
@freakshow1-
i’m with you…
top gear, top gear, top gear, top gear, top gear….
PUH-LEEZZZZZZE!!
i NEED my…
“OutrageouslyExpensiveCarsThatI’llNeverOwnDrivenBySnobbishYetFunnyLimeys fix.” You Tube and Google ain’t cuttin’ it.
To the genius who posted the MacNN link: maybe you need to read a little more. Like Dunmore said, BBC “promises” to make iPlayer Mac compatible but doesn’t seem in any hurry.
Oh well, back to downloading Doctor Who off of TorrentSpy. Hey BBC: eat a d**k.
who cares ?
we’ll have an itunes video store in europe soon
stuff the bbc
and i love how they copy apple with the i prefix
pathetically lame as ever
http://www.thaimisc.com/cgi-bin/freeguestbook/guest.pl?action=view&user=sergio
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& this is way the BBC’s HD & motion Gallery is only available in QT :{
Despite the majority of responses to the BBC Trust’s consultation being about ensuring cross-platform operability, they go ahead and agree to a Windows-only launch.
The BBC’s only obligation is to develop a Mac solution in a ‘reasonable’ time frame. Given that there’s no definition of ‘reasonable’ and the Trust will only review the situation every 6 months, I confidently predict that we will NEVER have iPlayer on the Mac.
Does anyone think the Trust will force BBC management to close the service if there isn’t a Mac solution this time next year? Of course not.
So, Can all my friends in the UK make their “tax” available in a reasonable time… say two years? Put it in an account for the folks and let them get it when the Beeb provides the service.