Comments on: iPlayer on Wii is “ironic”, says BBC

By: elredeyegrande

elredeyegrande — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:17:01 +0000

You can get the iPlayer working through the Media Extender on the 360. It’s a less than ideal solution, but hey it works.

By: grandmaster

grandmaster — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:39:20 +0000

I think it’s more likely that Sony and MS don’t want to be involved because they can’t be seen to offer free media content when they want to sell/rent their own.

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:54:37 +0000

Considering how much the BBC repeat everything iPlayer is almost redundant on every platform.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:11:29 +0000

Hey BBC… we pay for you so I’d reconsider saying stupid stuff like that. I’ll have a couple of thousand people demanding you port it to the gamecube before you know it. =)

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:51:08 +0000

Yeah because supporting iPlayer = True Multimedia Machine.

By: bloke

bloke — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:50:53 +0000

Blimey - I’m really looking forward to using this. In the absence of being arsed to remember to record stuff, the iPlayer works perfectly OK. And now it’s on my bedroom telly

What’s not to like?

/never take anyone called Darren seriously BTW.

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:44:39 +0000

Heh. He’s really not mincing his words, is he?

By: DizkoSkatinSuperstar

DizkoSkatinSuperstar — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:43:49 +0000

A shining example of post-Hutton BBC editorial impartiality there.

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:43:00 +0000

@Alex:

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:41:24 +0000

You tell them Alex. You tell them good.

By: Random_H

Random_H — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:19:36 +0000

Keep your 480p Video.

And your irony.

Alex

By: that_happy_cat

that_happy_cat — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:19:06 +0000

I don’t think it’s ironic. Nintendo’s mass market audience is full of people wanting to watch BBC’s summer lineup. THe synergy between god awful programme making AND a never ending puke-duction line of unplayable mini-games is undeniable.

Also… can people please stop putting “i” in front of other words? It’s starting to rally get on my nerves.

By: kasai

kasai — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:16:53 +0000

the BBC have nothing on there channel anyway so I doubt anyone is going to be missing anything. Unless you love Eastenders

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:15:06 +0000

Fuck. I just had a look and it won’t let me access it from outside of UK. But you guys don’t have bands broad enough to use it either.

Talk about irony…

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:56:49 +0000

Not surprising at all, tbh.

By: jetsetwilly

jetsetwilly — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:54:08 +0000

The blog entry says “According to the Beeb’s Erik Huggers it’s because Sony and Microsoft wanted to “control” the iPlayer.” - which is unsurprising if true.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:53:21 +0000

Sounds like MS and Sony dind’t want it.
Ah, cool. Flash update on the way for the Wii.
“Xbox Live, its [MS] walled garden online service.”

IMO it’s MS fear of Flash that makes it a no go. Since the iPlayer is web based the PS3 will be able to access it once they update the Flashplayer.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:41:51 +0000

So that’s what the i stands for.
Looks at iMac/iPod/iPhone
;_; ;_; ;_;

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:22:33 +0000

Is that the only reason they did it?