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iPlayer Coming To Europe.. For A Price

The much acclaimed iPlayer only has one real fault, you can only watch it in the UK. Until now that is. As part of an international rollout plans, the beeb are to launch iPlayer into the Western European market.

Watch iPlayer in Europe, if you have iPad

The only downside is that it will initially only be available as an iPad app, and the content will be a selection of BBC shows, but not the same as UK viewers get.

Jana Bennett, President of global iPlayer will tell the Banff World Television Festival today that the European iPlayer as “a different proposition” from the UK’s catch-up service, offering a curated mix of old and new BBC programmes. The freedom from catch-up means that we’ve got a lot more flexibility in terms of what we put on there and how we present it.”

Monthly subscription is expected to be around $10, and it is expected that iPlayer will eventually be available in many more countries, and across a lot more devices.

More on this story:-

 

BBC iPlayer heading to Europe for a monthly fee – TechRadar UK 

The BBC is set to makes it iPlayer service available to Western Europeans with an iPad for a monthly subscription fee later this summer. Here in the UK access to the iPlayer is covered by the license fee we pay for our television …

BBC iPlayer global launch to begin in western Europe

2011-06-14 05:04:39 – The Guardian

Doctor Who will be one of the programmes available on the BBC iPlayer in western Europe. Photograph BBC Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers will be made available to Europeans armed with an iPad from later this year as the BBC begins the process of …

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