[access-uk] Re: BBC iPlayer and more
- From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:53:16 -0000
Hi,
This is all very interesting, and with the introduction of remote control
devices to control media from computers I think it pretty much means that
the time when the computer starts to take over as the centrepiece of our
entertainment/hifi systems is almost here.
You can easily connect a computer with a good sound card to an amp,
preferably with another sound card for non-music applications like screen
reading and sounds so you can control them seppearately. As the PC would
also have dvd and cdrw drives you then no longer need to buy those
sepparately. In fact, it will probably be the case that you can play a cd
without having to switch on the computer, but music is already being
downloaded rather than physically bought a lot now, so your cd cabinet is
going togo too.Also, with the recent improvements in speech recognition, I
can't see it being too many years before most computer work is done by
speaking.
So, I'm saying that I see the computer moving from still mainly an office
based thing into our living rooms, replacing our sky box, cd and dvd
players.I've already seen computers with 800 gb of storage on board, so
we'll be talking tb very soon now, and as music storage formats become more
efficient, it won't be long before the largest collections could all be
stored on one computer, with video to follow.
Does anybody know how much space hd video files would take up as that is
what will drive hard drive capacity up radically next.
Cheers
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:20 AM
Subject: [access-uk] BBC iPlayer and more
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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