Comments on: BBC iPlayer Update http://www.johng.co.uk/2007/08/14/bbc-iplayer-update/ John Griffin is just another media junkie Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: AlanH http://www.johng.co.uk/2007/08/14/bbc-iplayer-update/#comment-11270 AlanH Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:44:28 +0000 http://www.johng.co.uk/2007/08/14/bbc-iplayer-update/#comment-11270 You can find out exactly how to watch BBC iPlayer overseas at this link: www.consult-here.com/BBC.html It gives you 3 different ways to do it. I have tried two of them and they both work very well. I am in Spain. You can find out exactly how to watch BBC iPlayer overseas at this link:

http://www.consult-here.com/BBC.html

It gives you 3 different ways to do it. I have tried two of them and they both work very well. I am in Spain.

]]> By: Simon Tyrrell http://www.johng.co.uk/2007/08/14/bbc-iplayer-update/#comment-2675 Simon Tyrrell Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:09:01 +0000 http://www.johng.co.uk/2007/08/14/bbc-iplayer-update/#comment-2675 Some things I don't understnad about iPlayer. Why doesn't it work, I have all the right gear and it keeps telling me I need to install iPlayer before it will work. ehm? I just logged in through iPlayer. What d' fuck! Why can't I get content while over-seas? Why didn't they make it so you had to have a TV licence first? Why didn't they just use iTunes' FairPlay DRM? The TV licence serial number would replace the iTunes account. The content would be locked to a designated computer so we could watch over-seas and content would not have to time-out. Development costs would have been nil, Apple would have sold a mountian of Apple TV set-top-boxes, BBC could have taken a cut, then used the money to make a Linux client. AND most importantly it would all work! Some things I don’t understnad about iPlayer.
Why doesn’t it work, I have all the right gear and it keeps telling me I need to install iPlayer before it will work. ehm? I just logged in through iPlayer. What d’ fuck!
Why can’t I get content while over-seas?
Why didn’t they make it so you had to have a TV licence first?
Why didn’t they just use iTunes’ FairPlay DRM? The TV licence serial number would replace the iTunes account. The content would be locked to a designated computer so we could watch over-seas and content would not have to time-out. Development costs would have been nil, Apple would have sold a mountian of Apple TV set-top-boxes, BBC could have taken a cut, then used the money to make a Linux client. AND most importantly it would all work!

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