The BBC plans to provide downloads of its programming during 2007, promising a see change in the way we watch television.Its iPlayer is part of a bigger picture ( also featuring deals with Microsoft ) aimed at making the public broadcasters content more accessible and relevant.
Accoding to the Beeb's director of new media and technology, Ashley Highfield " the iPlayer will offer you cath up television on your computer,up to seven days after tranmission.You will be able to download any program from the eight BBC channels and then watch it on your PC and,we hope, move it across to your TV set or down to your mobile phone,to wacth it when you want".
The move will alarm ISPs,which will have to handle the extra traffic and subscribers will have to keep an ever closer eye on their download caps.Trials and a Public Value Test are under way to assess the benefits to licence fee payers.
The basic of iPlayers features:
- The oddly-named BBC IMP (Interactive Media Player) is a test system designed to allow you to watch BBC television programs and listen to BBC radio programs after they have been broadcast
- When you run the program, you see a five-tabbed display. The first, called home highlights the new and favourite content.
- The second tab, Guide, allows you to search the listing for programs to watch. This is really a Microsoft Internet Explorer window. From here you can find all the programs that the iMP can deliver to you.
- A third tab, Search, allows you to use free-form text searches (Google-style) to search for programs to download.
- Tab four, My Downloads, provide the facility for reviewing, cancelling, deleting or watching the programs you have downloaded
- The content has been specially modified for IMP. This includes on-screen branding
- And also a DOG in the corner of each program. You can also use a special hidden monitor screen to monitor downloads and uploads your computer is making
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