The BBC has launched a beta version of its popular iPlayer showing off new features like the ability to share favourite programmes via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
When they’re not busy fighting battalions of Russian hooligans in far-flung car parks, the Welsh will soon be enjoying their new status as the UK’s first digital TV nation.
The country’s switchover from analogue to digital began in Swansea last August, with the city becoming the first fully digital city in the country.
The BBC has teamed up with the bods at Facebook, Bebo and Twitter to add social networking options in the next update to their excellent iPlayer, which allows viewers to watch BBC programmes online after they have been broadcast.
Perhaps they’ve been so busy blasting out business missives that they haven’t realised what they’ve been missing out on, but BlackBerry users can now get the BBC iPlayer on their mobiles
The new iPlayer on BlackBerry does exactly what it says on the tin, and streams video-on-demand from the BBC’s new BlackBerry-optimised BBC iPlayer page.
Humax Freesat have just served up a short video showing its users how they can grab a chunk of BBC iPlayer goodness through their Freesat equipment.
The beta update should be available to the majority of suitably equipped users in time for Christmas, with the full release rolled out to all existing freesat HDTV’s and boxes in the next few months.
The BBC has teamed up with gaming giants Nintendo to launch a new and improved version of the iPlayer catch-up service for the Nintendo Wii gaming console.
Following the launch of the iPlayer for the Playstation network in September, the new version improves on the frankly rubbish original which we found so clunky that we quickly abandoned it.
The new iPlayer channel will be available to download from November 18, and the BBC are hoping that it will prove a hit among the one million Wii users in the UK.
Last night we reported on a major outage that saw the entire BBC website – news, radio, features, sport – the whole caboodle – going down for several hours.
Some users reported a general ‘wobble’ across the internet around 1.45am, with the BBC site disappearing completely around 2am and staying offline till past 3.30am.
Entire BBC website suffers catastrophic crash starting at 1.40am onwards, crashing completely at 2am, and remaining offline for over an hour with the service still unusable at 03.15am.
It’s such an unusual occurrence for the entire BBC site to go down that it becomes news in itself, but as of now (02.25am, UK time), the site has been totally down for over 25 minutes.
The site seemed to wobble for a bit around 1.40am, went back online and then crashed completely around 2am.
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The BBC has announced that it’s slapped backs and high five’d the folks at Stitcher.com to cut a deal to make the content of its World Service available to users of the mobile phone-based application.
The BBC World Service said that the corporation will “provide a selection of English language podcasts, with programming such as Global News, Digital Planet, Global Arts & Entertainment and Africa Today.”
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