Interesting Stuff 2008-08-26
, , and report Simon Nelson's announcement of "series stacking" on ±«Óãtv iPlayer (of no more than 15% of all television content [explanation from the ±«Óãtv Trust]; series to include , , Little Dorrit, Survivors, The History Of Climate Change, Bruce Parry's Amazon, Clone, Walking With Beeching and The Story Of Maths):
Now, you'll be able to join a series half way through following a friend's recommendation and catch up on all the previous episodes - or watch them all in one go over a weekend.
Series stacking marks a key development in our strategy to let audiences view our programmes whenever and wherever they want.
Simon is also quoted in this release about adding ±«Óãtv Four, C±«Óãtv and CBeebies to the official live streams offered for ±«Óãtv Three, the and ±«Óãtv Radio, as in The Guardian.
"The ±«Óãtv faces strike action at its research and development centre at Kingswood Warren", reports .
There's been to the post here by iPlayer chief Anthony Rose, ±«Óãtv iPlayer Goes H.264. Dan Rayburn of StreamingMedia :
Bottom line, journalists need to do a much better job of fact checking and not run a story just for the headline or because they feel since other bloggers ran it, they have to also.
So who's been saying what, aside from and ? There's some speculation about the ±«Óãtv and ISPs with eye-catching images [click on the thumbnail for more] at , and a response from Internet Blog's editor Nick Reynolds on .
"Despite Team GB's massive medal haul," , "it is the ±«Óãtv's website that is the star of the Beijing Olympics." All the details are in John O'Donovan's post below.
Over at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh TV Festival, Ashley Highfield, formerly of this parish, has been talking about what , and those of us not in Auld Reekie can including the , Armando Iannucci's call for the and . [Apologies for the lack of direct links to the video - the site doesn't work that way and instead offers you .FLV files to save - clearly this online video malarkey is never going to catch on!]
And from Beeboid bloggers, the new "Portfolio Executive, Social Media - ±«Óãtv Vision", , and ±«Óãtv Jersey's is .
Alan Connor is co-editor, ±«Óãtv Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 26th Aug 2008, gottago wrote:I thought the ±«Óãtv Trust ruled out this series stacking thing when it was proposed that the iPlayer would have programmes for the last 13 weeks and they went on about DVD sales being affected?
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At 13th Jun 2009, U14033173 wrote:Thank you very much very nice...
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