Thu, 27 Nov 2008 BBC live streaming starts today

nharknett said on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

"Last week Director of BBC vision Jana Bennett said this "completes our commitment" to make channels available online."

And what about making programs downloadable for the Mac, hey? They seem to have forgotten about that one. Although I download them with iPlayer Downloader & then I get to keep them.

Ed said on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

have you actually tried this on an iPhone? As i just have and unsurprisingly i was told i was using a device that did not have javascript or flash installed. Do your research mate before you open your mouth would you? I have been waiting for news 24 to stream to the iPhone so didn't believe you for one second about beeb one and two.

Mark Hattersley said on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

We want to apologise. When the story was clicked live the BBC had its "Sorry we can't show you this particular programme for legal reasons, however, this programme is available on your TV." comment up.

The writer had put mobile devices and the sub changed it to iPhone and it was a genuine mistake. We quickly took the story down and corrected it.

Haku said on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

"Sorry we can't show you this particular programme for legal reasons, however, this programme is available on your illegal download service of choice, which are obviously not concerned with any legal reasons, it's a shame the content provider still doesn't get this."

Russ said on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

You can do everything with Zattoo, it's legal and free. www.zattoo.com

greendave said on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

Don't wait for the BBC to stream NEWS 24 to the iphone, I tried that and it didn't work. I tried waiting for them to stream radio and that didn't work either. Plainly, those people waiting for them to provide a download service for the mac are wasting their efforts - some have waited 12 months now and it has had no effect on the BBC. Apparently, waiting has no effect on the BBC whatsoever.

Shame because their website and iPlayer are world-beaters, if only they could get their act together in getting away from proprietary software such as Flash and Windows Media. You can stream H264 protected to replace Flash. However, the only download alternative to wmv with DRM that will work on the mac is Silverlight! When Apple releases Quicktime 10, it may provide the DRM the BBC wants but Apple may still choose not to let 3rd-parties use it like they do with the iTunes DRM. Consequently, it is not all the BBC's fault.

Martin said on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

Well said greendave, and thanks for the update Mark and MW staff, we all make mistakes.

Zattoo is fine but the quality is not great.

Ascylto said on Fri, 28 Nov 2008

I wonder ... what if the BBC had spent the £250,000 it spent on champagne last year (strange but true) on a bit of programming for the Mac? Still, what can we expect from a Corporation whose prime movers in these areas are ex-Microsoft?

Paul said on Fri, 28 Nov 2008

I'm a little confuzzled as to why it is that perfectly normal, balanced and well educated people still don't understand that it ISN'T Apple who want the DRM stuff on iTunes. They are forced to do it as part of the licensing agreement they make with the studios. If they refuse the DRM then they don't get the content for iTunes. Simple really...not sure where the confusion could be coming from...

Tedster said on Mon, 08 Dec 2008

Russ and Martin forget Zattoo as you say the quality is poor. TVCatchup is the way forward. Try it you will see what I mean.