iPlayer Comes To More Connected TV Devices
The BBC’s highly rated iPlayer IPTV service is now available on more TV sets throughout the UK than ever before, so says Gideon Summerfield, Product Manager for the iPlayer at the BBC. He announced in a blog post that iPlayer is being rolled out on evermore connected tv sets.
Theres an increase in the consumption of BBC iPlayer content on connected TVs, set top boxes and Blu ray players since June of last year.
Next is the inclusion of the Flash version of iPlayer on the newly launched Virgin Media TiVo set top box, making locating favorite channes a lot easier, it is also marking an increase in the amount of programmes available (up from about 600 to 900 hours on average, bringing it in line with iPlayer on other connected devices), and the inclusion of catch up radio and popular features such as subtitles and popular listings.
Panasonic and Sony have joined the likes of Samsung, LG, and Toshiba in launching connected TVs in the UK that support HTML. The BBC have now been able to certify the standard HTML version of BBC iPlayer for TV on these devices.
BT are roll-out of the BBC iPlayer on BT’s hybrid DTT+IP service ‘BT Vision’, following an upgrade of the software on the BT Vision boxes: by the end of next week, 100,000 homes are expected to be able to access the BBC iPlayer on their BT Vision box, and by the end of June it should be available to “pretty much everyone” in the UK.
BT added 40,000 subscribers to its hybrid IPTV service ‘BT Vision’ in the fourth quarter of 2010 its best result in seven quarters and reached a total of 545,000 customers.
The iPlayer is now also available on Freeview HD devices that adhere to the D-Book 6.2.1 specification. The first product to be certified for this version, accessable via the Red Button from a BBC channel, is a new Freeview+ HD PVR from Sony.
Related News:
- BBC iPlayer Stats Show Rise In Live TV Streaming
- BBC iPlayer App For iPad Tablet And iPhone Gets Closer To Launch
- The iPad Is The Device For BBC iPlayer in the US
- Revamped BBC iPlayer Launches Today
- BBC iPlayer Requests Gets A Big Boost From The World Cup
This is great news for one of the best technology inventions since John Logie Baird. I just bought a new panasonic TV and it has internet capability built in. Just need to figure out how to use it . . . . .
[...] part of the BBC’s crusade to get iPlayer on more connected devices. Panasonic will be adding the BBC’s iPlayer IPTV service to models of their latest internet [...]