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By tim, on April 18th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterI sat down last night to watch a programme on ITV’s catch-up service, using the Silverlight-based ITV Player. It was watchable, but not too good. Now and again the stream would pause for buffering, and I saw the Silverlight busy icon for a while. Quality is also an issue. Sometimes it is great; sometimes
…continue reading Is Silverlight the problem with ITV Player? Microsoft, you have a problem.
By tim, on October 14th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterJust noticed that the BBC is adopting Adobe AIR to create a platform-neutral download client for iPlayer. Erik Huggers says:
Today, we are announcing that in partnership with Adobe we are building a platform-neutral download client.
Using Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), we intend to make BBC iPlayer download functionality available on Mac, Linux
…continue reading BBC adopting Adobe AIR for platform-neutral iPlayer downloads
By tim, on August 13th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter
The BBC’s streamed catch-up broadcasting, iPlayer, is about to be upgraded to the high-definition H.264 standard, according to this post, from the BBC’s Head of Digital Media Anthony Rose.
He says that the “Play high quality” option will be available “from this week”, though I couldn’t see any sign of it on
…continue reading BBC iPlayer supporting H.264 in Flash – what’s the point of downloading now?
By tim, on July 3rd, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterI was disappointed when my first efforts to use the BBC’s streaming iPlayer beta failed. Whatever content I chose, I got the message: This content isn’t available at the moment.
Right-clicking the player lets you copy a further error message, which says:
Title: akamai:AkamaiServiceError.AKAMAI_API Description: Connection attempt failed Code: 18
…continue reading BBC iPlayer beta firewall issues
By tim, on July 3rd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter
Not a pictorial version of Esperanto; rather, a set of design guidelines for bbc.co.uk:
The global visual language is a set of guidelines which aim to bring more consistency to the site by introducing an underlying design grid and consistent design patterns, icons, buttons, image sizes and a pan-BBC audio/video player.
according to
…continue reading The BBC’s Global Visual Language
By tim, on March 14th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterI’m at Qcon London listening to John O’Donovan, Chief Architect, and Kevin Hinde, Head of Software Development, both from the BBC.
They are talking about video on bbc.co.uk. Previously this has been handled through pop-up pages that give a choice between Windows Media Player and Real Media. The BBC will now be
…continue reading BBC standardizing on Flash for web video
By tim, on March 14th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterYesterday here at Qcon I attended an informal get-together to discuss the BBC’s “tech refresh”, which turns out to mean the rebuilding of its web platform.
Apparently the budget has just been approved, which means the BBC will be going ahead with a new content platform built on Java supplemented by a lightweight PHP
…continue reading The BBC is rebuilding its web platform
By tim, on March 3rd, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterThe BBC has a new customizable home page, with gadgets similar to those at Netvibes, iGoogle and elsewhere.
First impressions are mixed. I don’t like it’s large size (1024 x 768), even though this is the trend. This issue is not the size of my display, but that I don’t necessarily want the browser
…continue reading New gadgety home page at bbc.co.uk
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