Kangaroo was the original trial project.
Canvas was the attempt to make the broadcasters work together and that became
YouView.
And yes, OFCOM managed to put the kybosh on it because as always, rather than
one decent, well-engineered service, the HMG mantra is all about "competition."
As in "why have one decent, properly funded {rail, water, electricity,
school, Internet, mobile} when you can have 5 all equally crap and only serve
the profitable parts of the country...
Actually, being fair to OFCOM, it is not them per-se - it is their rather
clueless political masters.
D
-----Original Message-----
From: get_iplayer <get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org> On Behalf Of Shevek
Sent: 14 January 2019 09:00
To: David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk>
Cc: get_iplayer <get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Joint UK streaming platform
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 15:20, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The original Kangaroo was scaled back (it became Youview) because
> OFCOM thought it was anti-competitive. Does Youview even exist any
> more? I don't recall ever seeing it in the wild after I did quite a
> bit of annoying work to publish programme information to it from the
> iPlayer back-end.
>
It does indeed, it's what you get when you subscribe to BT, TalkTalk, or
PlusNet TV packages
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