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BBC Releases P2P TV Client Test

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the next-generation-couch-potato dept.

evildeed writes "The BBC's Internet Media Player trial started today, and a few thousand lucky UK citizens now have a copy. The good news? Legal P2P downloads of quality shows. The bad news? Requires IE and Windows Media Player, and it's probably going to be UK-only. Oh well. One of the lucky few has uploaded screenshots and a brief review." The service was first announced back in may.

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  1. Proprietary requirements by Randseed · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, effectively, they lock the user who wants to use it into Windows Media Player and MSIE. So, in effect, aside from the obvious angle of setting a precident, their offer is worthless to many people by design. So now, like the music download services, they can claim "Hey, there is a legal alternative! We're trying to deal with the preferred distribution channels!" when in reality they've done jack, and haven't provided a service to a lot of people. Those people see no benefit directly from this, other than taking the industry trying to take away the excuse that there is no such distribution channel.

  2. We really don't mind the IE by TarrySingh · · Score: -1, Troll

    after all that is what that'll be left!

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  3. Re:Before anyone asks.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Ahh, so basically you're one of those people who hate the BBC
    I am not.
    the fact that the BBC produces so many worthwhile programmes (much more than "free market" ITV) is actually evidence that it's not nepotistic or corrupt? Or would that be using logic instead of your own bias?
    No, it would be ignoring the facts.
    you know nothing about media.
    Rather, you know nothing about me.
  4. I feel so lucky... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The bbc media player has made my life complete. now anytime i want i can learn why big government is good. i need the nanny state in my life to protect me 24/7 and monitor me as I work. i need to trade a few freedoms for security to stop the bad people because Tony Blair told me. the bbc have opened my mind to the dangers of al quaida. high quality and unbiased. it's good that tony blair will be in for another 10 years. it's good to shoot people on the tube. it's good to have an id card rammed up my arse. it's good to be able to watch government press releases all the time. Stalin was good too. So was Lenin and Trotsky. and Hitler.