iplayer
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Doctor Who’s Very First Story Won’t Be a Part of the BBC’s Streaming Archive
Nearly 60 years to the day that Doctor Who began airing, next month, the BBC will launch an unprecedented collection of over 800 episodes from the show’s distant and not-so-distant past on its streaming platform, iPlayer—the first of its kind from the corporation. But it turns out that the very first story that kicked all…
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BBC Downloads: Aussies Unlikely To Score
One of the common complaints about the otherwise excellent BBC iPlayer app is that you can’t access recently-broadcast TV shows. The BBC has outlined plans to offer a download service which would allow viewers to pay to download copies of shows minutes after they first air, but while that sounds promising, Australians are unlikely to…
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BBC iPlayer: TV Of The Future — From The Past
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks poring over the BBC’s iPlayer application. It’s not perfect, but I’m solidly convinced it’s the future of TV, or at least how I’ll be watching it.
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Will Harvey Norman Stop Selling McTivia?
The Australian reports that executives at Harvey Norman are considering their position on selling the McTivia media streamer, due to concerns over its potentially copyright-infringing promotion of VPN services to access overseas video content.