I'm looking at iPlayer now and 'Strictly Come Dancing' is th -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Deutsch Sent: 24 December 2007 10:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news
Alas, the promise of being able to "catch up with Strictly Come Dancing while having a cafe latte in Coffee Republic" doesn't quite hold true yet. Having missed a flight this morning, I'm spending far more of Christmas Eve than I'd like to in Heathrow Airport. I was hoping to kill some time watching some things on the streaming iPlayer, but they're all unavailable. I'm presuming they're being served from a non-bbc.co.uk domain - is it Akamai? I can listen to streaming radio though - so could just spend the next few hours listening to 6 Music... - martin On 10/16/07, Martin Deutsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This appears to have gone live already - I've just connected to The > Cloud hotspot in the pub across the road, and it's happy to let me on > to *.bbc.co.uk and watch streaming video. > > The Cloud's login page (which appears when you try to access non-free > sites) also has links to t3.co.uk and channel4radio.com. Channel4.com > appears to work too, but not 4oD. > > The link to bbc.co.uk points to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/wifi/, and > there's also a fancy flash video (trailer?) promoting bbc.co.uk. You > can, seemingly, access this from anywhere at > https://hotspot.thecloud.net/cloud-ssg-web/ssg.do > > - martin > > On 10/16/07, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Steve Jolly wrote: > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007 > > /10_october/16/adobe.shtml > > > > Also (and apologies for not noticing this before I sent the first > > email), interesting WiFi hotspot partnership news: > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007 > > /10_october/16/cloud.shtml > > > > > > S > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
