BBC unveils next-generation iPlayer at FM2007
The next generation of the BBC's iPlayer is now live on the internet, offering not only downloading services but also live streaming, and is now available on Apple and Linux systems as well as to Microsoft users.
The BBC will kick off a hard marketing launch on Christmas Day, Huggers said, with the advertising slogan "Making the un-missable un-missable."
Huggers also announced that the next step for iPlayer will be its television launch on the Virgin Media television network.
"This is going to be a fabulously exciting opportunity for the consumer to have direct access on a TV set to all that programming that today is available on a PC through iPlayer," he said.
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It remains the case that MSBBC has been corrupted by the Microsoft money. Apple and Linux users remain second-class citizens whose money is passed on to a convicted monopoly abuser. Need the whole scandal be repeated at all (read the background in full because this is just a PR stunt)? The BBC's scam has already been report to the EU. The Beeb lost its way.