[access-uk] BBC iPlayer and more
- From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:20:07 -0000
Before you purchase any computer based solutions to recording TV shows, you
may wish to know about future happenings on the internet.
We'll cover this on the new Access 2.0 blog on the BBC website soon
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20 and keep you up to date.
Basically, buying a hardware solution plus aerial or satellite dish will
soon prove to be a very expensive way of viewing or recording TV because the
BBC and other broadcasters will be providing TV catchup services and more
online for free very soon.
Some broadcasters already have some TV download services, Five and Channel 4
for instance. Also Sky. (any accessibility feedback on these welcome)
The BBC's forthcoming iPlayer that is likely to launch in the Spring of
2007, is a piece of downloadable software that you put on your PC to giv you
access to the last 7 days of BBC output. Important to note that it will be
carrying Audio Description, subtitles, signing and more access solutions.
They're talking a good access talk right now and want to re-define what
access to television means to disabled people.
So from spring you will be able to do similar things to Sky Plus. There are
a few copyright restrictions however which mean you can only keep the
programme for 13 weeks on your hard drive before it automatically gets
zapped.
There is currently talk of licensing iPlayer to other broadcasters or
possibly - to make it more simple - to give other broadcasters access to
iPlayer so you will find all channels output via the one service.
For those of you who are a little geekier, you might like to know that some
of the iPlayer service relies on a BitTorrent style download though
immediate streaming is available.
Accessibility has been built into this product from day one and could be the
start of a really good universal access solution for video on demand ... the
next big thing. Already the BBC has found this week that one tenth of all tv
in the UK is viewed online and that's before iPlayer or other rivals are
launched in a big way. It'll explode.
If anyone has any other questions I'll try to answer.
Clearly Nebula is the best most accessible solution but be aware of what's
on the horizon.
...Damon
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