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
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.
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 15:20, David Cantrell 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
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:33:26AM +, RS wrote:
> "The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are already locked in negotiations to create
> a joint UK streaming platform made up of new content and their back
> catalogues, through a project known as Kangaroo 2."
>
> Does anyone know anything about it? I
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