This story from P13 Private Eye Vol 1441 (7 April '17) is OT but as people who follow BBC iPlayer developments closely I thought it would be interesting to see how the Sky Q box (presumably) continues to use the legacy api and how the story explodes into questions about fair access It never occurred to me that the Sky boxes could be still on the older API's, seems like the Private Eye journalist was briefed by someone close to iPlayer development
Kevin "WHY is a BBC iPlayer so useless?" asked Sky's pompous pundit-in-chief Adam Boulton, playing catch-up and trying to find Andrew Neil's interview with Theresa May on the day the PM had sent her Article 50 letter to Brussels. "Where are the @afneil interviews tonight? Hearing from a Twitter follower who was watching the programme that very moment on iPlayer, Boulton begged: "Where? How do I find it?" Four minutes later he was still searching: All I can find is lame BBC drama and bloody Red Nose Day Stymied at every turn, Boulton's frustration only grew as he ranted about "fair access" and convinced himself the BBC was sabotaging access to its programmes for Sky customers. At 10.27pm (the interview had gone out on BBC1 at 7pm) he concluded: "BTW it's still not on my iPlayer and BBC News is patronising me" Alas! Boulton should really take up his grievance with the recently appointed chairman of Sky, James Murdoch. For it is Murdoch's company which has refused to give viewers "fair access" to the BBC's standard iPlayer on its supposedly state-of-the-art Q boxes, using instead an inferior legacy version which takes on average three hours before programmes are available, rather than letting audiences catch up from the moment of broadcast As Ofcom begins its investigation into whether even greater media power for the Dirty Digger is in the public interest, it is unlikely to be impressed by Sky's apparently cynical attempt to frustrate and restrict viewer choice" _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
