RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

[Andrew Bowden]

 


        You're kidding, right?
         
        The service on Virgin isn't the iplayer, it's implemented via
Virgin's existing service that already provides BBC repeats that's been
running for a couple of years now.  The same document approved the
service but it is NOT the iPlayer.  

 
The PC TV download version part of it, is just one aspect of iPlayer -
it is not the entirity of it by any means.  The intentions of iPlayer
being a cross-platform product have been there for a long time - even
looking at how a service could be made available on Freeview.
 
And yes, there is a BBC catch up service currently on Virgin, using the
existing Virgin video on demand infrastructure and front end.  However
that's not iPlayer.  Cable iPlayer is pinker for starters.