Nick Reynolds highlights and links to:
The BBC Trust published the conclusions of its review of the BBC's on-demand services, including the BBC iPlayer.
The BBC Trust also began a consultation about the BBC Executive's proposed approach to on demand and syndication.
Check link below for some select quotes and links to relevant sites.
Paul Murphy pointing out highlights:
– April 2010 was the best performing month for BBC iPlayer with 123 million request for BBC TV and Radio programmes, up from 118 million in March 2010
– Online requests also hit an all time high at 104 million, up 3 million from March 2010
– The new series of Doctor Who also chalked up a new record of the highest number of requests a single programme has received, with 1.6 million requests for Episode 1. Outnumbered and Russell Howard's Good News also performed well
Round up of iPlayer beta coverage, by Paul Murphy.
Morten Eidal:
We decided that the best route to implement our video and audio player was playback using the html5 video tag. This allows us to integrate the native player into our site, where we serve two H.264 flavours, one 1500kbps for the high quality video (default), and a lower 800kbps you can use if you are bandwidth constrained.
In any case, the result is the Beta version you can see right now – we really hope you like it – delivered by a small team of 5 within just 4 weeks and with the generous support of our FM&T colleagues despite being already busy with the UK election, iPlayer V3, and now the World Cup.
And don't forget, soon we will embark on incorporating the iPlayer V3 features for Bigscreen.
But that is chapter two.
Robert Andrews:
Rose acknowledged it may be used only by early adopters but said it’s “the best feature” of the upgrade: “If i see Erik is watching EastEnders, I can join in and watch. The integration of chat with live TV has been the holy grail. This, for some, could transform the way they watch television.” The feature has missed today’s beta for Rose’s third-generation iPlayer, but is due in two to three weeks.
Shame that chat facility will be powered by Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger (or whatever it's called now).