BBC Jump On Ipad Bandwagon With Iplayer Beta
Posted By seovine on April 18, 2011
Just a day after the UK launch of the Ipad, the BBC have released a beta adjustment of the famous iplayer. To get over Apples reluctance to use flash, the BBC are run ipad iplayer using Quicktime streaming technology. Running on iPad to a lower place the title of Bigscreen, the Iplayer exhibits its electrical capacity in a large button format with a sideways scrolling carousel of shows in the same way as when running on consoles.
The launch of iPlayer for iPad was expected, especially as the BBC are attached to bringing the catch up tv service to as many platforms as possible, but it does provide another compelling reason for British customers to invest in an iPad.
iPlayer for iPad supports most BBC channels such as BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, Cbebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament, and BBC Alba, plus 10 radio stations. However, at present there is no support for BBC HD television channel. As most UK mobile networks do not substitute streaming across the 3G network, most users will need to be connected via Wi-Fi to view. Lucky Ipad owners can download iPlayer for iPad at beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen
It will certainly encourage the small minority not already in love with the ipad to go out and buy one.
It appears that Apple are starting to look at Live Internet TV as more than “just a hobby” and are giving it a a ended overhaul.Changing the size, shape, os, ram and most importantly price.
A report from Engadget says that a relaunched version of Apple TV will be a all different beast to the current version. Running on iPhone OS 4.0 and streaming all your movies from the cloud hosting.
The new device will also be much smaller, the size of an iphone and will be able to run high definition (HD) video at 1080p. But have Apple left it all too late? The level of competition is huge, with all the big boys getting into live online tv. Not least will be the Google TV service launching just about the world soon. Netflix have installed their service into numerous devices and Apple have an ongoing feud with Adobe’s Flash player.
The service called Bitbop sounds good, however you will have to pay, and at a $9.99 monthly subscription they may have their work cut out.
At present the Bitbop service is in beta test and only available on BlackBerry phones. As it is currently so new, there are no movies available as yet but there are tv shows from Fox, NBC and CBS plus a variety of cable networks such as guinea pig Geographic, A&E, Bravo and Lifetime.
The service will come as a free to download app offering previews, full content will cost $9.99 monthly over 3G and Wi-Fi connections. You can be sure that in this exceedingly competative market of mobile phone tv, Fox will put plenty of marketing behind the product.
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