[access-uk] Re: BBC iPlayer and more
- From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:50:31 -0000
Hi Damon:
This sounds wonderful! Tv on demand with AD and accessible software to
access the streaming? Great!=20
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf =
Of
Damon
Sent: 29 November 2006 08:20
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] BBC iPlayer and more=20
Before you purchase any computer based solutions to recording TV shows, =
you=20
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=20
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=20
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=20
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=20
carrying Audio Description, subtitles, signing and more access =
solutions.=20
They're talking a good access talk right now and want to re-define what=20
access to television means to disabled people.
So from spring you will be able to do similar things to Sky Plus. There =
are=20
a few copyright restrictions however which mean you can only keep the=20
programme for 13 weeks on your hard drive before it automatically gets=20
zapped.
There is currently talk of licensing iPlayer to other broadcasters or=20
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=20
of the iPlayer service relies on a BitTorrent style download though=20
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=20
on the horizon.
...Damon
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