Rob, I'm not sure you have read it all, or perhaps I read it wrong. To be honest, the system is almost exactly everything I would have suggested.
Not only is everything kept in the original format for conversion to whatever output format is desired, everything is properly tagged and indexed. The existence of an internal (and reviewer) "long tail" just means there will be such a system that should be rolled out to the whole of the UK. I went on about all these things in the first backstage podcast and I am very happy about the progress towards where the BBC needs to be. I read the other day about how Andy Ducan was say the BBC wasn't "down with the kids", but the iPlayer with the Wii and iPhone interface just shows how the BBC can make its excellent content available to people who have migrated from the TV. I sold my TV ages ago, and just watch the iPlayer on a computer monitor... perfect. If were me, I might have wanted pre-DVB-T encoded sources! It would be nice if the BBC News channel could also be archived and kept online - along with the subtitle output for ease of search engine indexing... If you could navigate through the archive, you could link to them from Wikipedia for a start. It would be great for citizens of the UK to find again the pronouncements by our great leaders and analysis of BBC correspondents. . Would be just excellent for research... Anwyay, full marks for Redux. Damn good work IMHO. 2008/10/27 Rob Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/history_of_the_bbc_redux_ > > proje.html > > "In the summer of 2007, freetards (me too), the OSC and others were > calling for the BBC to make iPlayer cross-platform > ... > Cross-platform support has always been a source of grief" > > The BBC's insistence that this is the problem rather than their use of > licence-fee-payers money to lock people in to proprietary standards > and exclude free platforms is getting more and more shrill. > > Breaking your public's devices one platform at a time really is not an > achievement, no matter how interesting a technical problem it is for > the Beeb's geeks or how strong their new leader's RDF is. > > - Rob. > - > 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]/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
