Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-23 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 23-Oct-2009, at 01:14, Tom Loosemore wrote: There’s no (public) evidence, beyond the existence of Kangaroo, that other broadcasters are actually all that interested in a one-stop aggregation portal (I’d be tempted to say “more fool them”—right now, they need all the help they can get).

RE: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-23 Thread Andrew Pipes
...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Mo McRoberts Sent: 23 October 2009 08:09 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer On 23-Oct-2009, at 01:14, Tom Loosemore wrote: Theres no (public) evidence, beyond the existence of Kangaroo, that other broadcasters

RE: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-23 Thread Andrew Pipes
Subject: Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer On 23-Oct-2009, at 09:36, Andrew Pipes wrote: Can you expand on that note about listings please Mo? Do you want more date/time information about when a programme was broadcast surfaced? Or a better interface for exploring back in time instead

Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-22 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 20-Oct-2009, at 21:51, I wrote: That said, it’s never entirely clear when people talk about “licensing iPlayer” whether they mean the front-end, with its myriad per-platform tweaks, clever Flash applet and AIR downloader, the back-end which ingests content, hooks it up appropriately, and

Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-22 Thread Tom Loosemore
There’s no (public) evidence, beyond the existence of Kangaroo, that other broadcasters are actually all that interested in a one-stop aggregation portal (I’d be tempted to say “more fool them”—right now, they need all the help they can get). coughs http://testtubetelly.channel4.com /coughs

Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-21 Thread David Tomlinson
Sorry for the duplicate post. Kieran Kunhya wrote: What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery system that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to being developed in-house at a broadcaster? Standardisation, as Mo indicated, why reinvent the wheel,

Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-21 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 21-Oct-2009, at 08:42, David Tomlinson wrote: Sorry for the duplicate post. Kieran Kunhya wrote: What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery system that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to being developed in-house at a broadcaster?

[backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-20 Thread David Tomlinson
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/bbc_trust_rejects_iplayer_federation/ The BBC Trust has shelved a plan that would have allowed broadcasters such as Channel 4, ITV and Five to share the Beeb's iPlayer. The so-called Open iPlayer project was meant to establish a new commercial service

Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-20 Thread Kieran Kunhya
...@tiscali.co.uk Subject: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Date: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009, 6:59 PM http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/bbc_trust_rejects_iplayer_federation/ The BBC Trust has shelved a plan that would have allowed broadcasters such as Channel 4, ITV

Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-20 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 21:31, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote: What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery system that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to being developed in-house at a broadcaster? Possibly the fact that no other bugger is