Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2008-12-12 Thread Andy
2008/12/11 Mr I Forrester mail...@cubicgarden.com: Don't forget you can all take part in the iplayer birthday celebrations. I'm almost certain that iPlayer was released sometime in the summer (not December)? archive.org has a copy of iPlayer dated 13 Oct 2007[1], it also has a copy from Aug 07

RE: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2008-12-12 Thread Nick Reynolds-FMT
iplayer has had quite a few launches over the years so it was a bit tricky to find an exact date - december of last year was when it got a real marketing push and a public launch -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of

Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2008-12-12 Thread Michael
On Friday 12 December 2008 15:34:56 Andy wrote: I'm almost certain that iPlayer was released sometime in the summer (not December)? archive.org has a copy of iPlayer dated 13 Oct 2007[1], it also has a copy from Aug 07 but that doesn't load (at least not for me). Are you guys certain iPlayer

Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2008-12-12 Thread Ant Miller
It was public beta for a while, but officially it's one year old today. a On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Andy stude.l...@googlemail.com wrote: 2008/12/11 Mr I Forrester mail...@cubicgarden.com: Don't forget you can all take part in the iplayer birthday celebrations. I'm almost certain that

RE: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2008-12-12 Thread John O'Donovan
You are not going mad - iPlayer was running through the summer, but only as a beta and only with downloads available. You had to signup to get access. The full launch and the associated marketing push came in December once Streaming was also working. There were a lot of teething problems to sort

RE: [backstage] Why the poor bitrates on World Service, Asian Network etc?

2008-12-12 Thread Ian Forrester
From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods Sent: 10 December 2008 18:21 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Why the poor bitrates on World Service, Asian Network etc?