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BBC iPlayer on Wii
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According to Eurogamer:
That sounds pretty awesome actually, provided it's an actual Wii Channel (which it sounds like) as opposed to just support through the Opera browser.
The BBC has said its iPlayer video service will shortly be available on Wii.
This lets you download and stream BBC programmes that you may have missed, like News 24 with Peter Sissons and his voice.
An early version of the iPlayer will be available today, with more polished versions to be offered as and when they are ready. You can get it from the Internet Channel on Wii for a small one-off fee, although the BBC has said it is looking at ways to make it free in the future.
"This exciting alliance with the BBC is yet another way in which Nintendo is looking to broaden the market for its products by offering compelling and relevant content to families," added David Yarnton, bossman of Nintendo UK.
"BBC iPlayer on Wii will offer Wii owners another reason to turn their console on everyday and adds to the already established non gaming content on Wii that includes news and weather channels and an Internet browser."
More than 17.2 million of you used the iPlayer to download or stream content, apparently, and more than 42 million programmes have been watched since the iPlayer launched last Christmas.
Last month the BBC also rolled the service out on Apple's iPhone and the iPod Touch.
That sounds pretty awesome actually, provided it's an actual Wii Channel (which it sounds like) as opposed to just support through the Opera browser.
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It looks like it's just Wii browser support through the Internet channel.
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(Though they should totally offer it as a channel (even if it just boots to the iplayer page).)
They must be doing some giggery-pokery because normally the Wii cacks it with 1hr+ streams.
So Ironically the Wii will supass the 360 and the PS3 and probably Sky+ into being the largest play on demand service for the living room.
They should pump big cash into promoting this.
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And it is a channel:
If it was its own channel.
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I think they're trying to say that it'll be a paid download for an iPlayer channel from the Shop Channel, but it makes it sound like it's just access from the Internet Channel.
Channel.
EDIT: Okay.
So the only pay involved is downloading the Internet Channel in the first place (which I totally forgot was a purchase now, haha), and it could be a free dedicated channel in the future.
This is so awesome.
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Am I doing this right?
Hasn't it been possible to do that from the beginning?
Presumably through a channel, since the news story says so. In fact, it says "early versions of the service will be available from 9 April". What do they mean by "service" ? The iPlayer site only says "later", but the news story was April 9th - which is today.
No, it just didn't play.
And by 'early versions of the service' they mean the website through the Internet channel.
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The occasional mention of cost is just because you have to buy the internet channel on the Wii now, so to many people getting the message being sent out will have to plump up for the channel.
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From my time in America, I feel for you greatly. *Shudders*
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That is when the Wii light turns red.
EDIT: well I have and it works really well. The videos aren't great quality but good enough, and everything streamed without a hitch. An iPlayer channel would really make this a great feature for the Wii.
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Well, the Wii can do about 30 minutes of Google Video before running out of memory. If the iPlayer takes the Wii's limited memory into account it should be able to overwright previous buffered scenes, so if you want to rewind more that 30 minutes it will have to buffer again.
If you don't own a laptop, maybe its reasonable, but I can't see this being something that would encourage anyone to buy a wii (not that people need persuading).
Well unless your laptop is hooked up to your telly it's not quite the same. Last night I enjoyed being able to flick between what was on and iPlayer, all on the same big screen.
There's no update, you just go to the iPlayer website in the Internet Channel and it just works like youtube.
Actually, this is pretty sweet, if a bit late - I tried it a week ago on a whim, and was disappointed. But if I can now watch The Apprentice, Top Gear and Mitchell and Webb in the living room instead of having to arrange my bedsheets into an ersatz couch, then colour me happy.
Also, commiserations to the Americans, but at least you can get over it by playing Brawl
F1 and maybe Harry Hill.
Oh, and I love the crappy top 100 party songs that's on TMF everysingle weekend.
That's the only thing I use ITV for too.
The reason you couldn't do it before was because it was done in flash 8... and the Wii only has flash 7. Nintendo really need to update it to flash 8.
Some of the public TV/radio stations carry BBC programs in the USA, and Americans pay for these public stations with their taxes. The BBC is quite a sport for letting foreign IPs access nearly all of their web content, though it may exclude their on-demand service.
I wonder if the license fees are truly an issue. Need for a local redistributor (media servers), perhaps? Not wanting to be bothered and/or playing favorites are of course perfectly acceptable answers
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well I sit on the sofa with the laptop on my knees, so size wise its probably no different to having some megabastard TV on the other side of the room.
plus I can alt+tab to check email
Actually, all the public stations are paid for with private money + grants that anybody can get. There is no direct federal funding of TV.
We had one of the channels (4?) for a bit when Cox was handing out free digital cable for a month to everyone. I also figured out why everyone in Europe thinks Dick Cheney is running the show, the bastard was on BBC all the damn time while hardly showing up in the news here.
I'd say just let out of country people pay the licensing fee, but the licensing fee is insane and I'll just continue to wait for shows to come out on DVD like before.
Holy arse this actually works on the PS3. I tried it on my Wii too, but my wireless is crap, so it don't work very well, but I have ethernet on my PS3 so it's perfect. The PS3 browser is a lot better suited to it to be honest, since you can open the player in a 2nd full screen window, which doesn't seem to be an option on the Wii, though browsing in general is a lot better with the remote.
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