BBC's botched iPlayer to show adverts !
According to the licence to the latest beta:
7. In future versions of BBC iPlayer you may also automatically receive a small number of TV and radio promotional trailers per week as part of BBC iPlayer.
According to the licence to the latest beta:
7. In future versions of BBC iPlayer you may also automatically receive a small number of TV and radio promotional trailers per week as part of BBC iPlayer.
According to the latest blog post from Virtual Ubiquity
in the “Share” dialog box, just enter your friends’ email address and follow the ensuing instructions. Your friends will receive an invitation via email to access your document. ... If your friends don’t have a Buzzword account, there is a link on the Sign In page to create an account. If a user arrives at the Sign In page by way of a valid invitation link, he/she can create a Buzzword account.
In order to login to the BuzzWord beta from a Linux machine, you'll need to use the user-agent switcher extension, and set your user agent to something like
Mozilla/5.0 (windows; U; windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050821 firefox/1.5
All the buttons I pressed seemed to work fine, though obviously it's even less supported than BuzzWord is normally.
If you are on the BuzzWord trial, and would like a handy list of what the fonts look like, drop me a note and I'll share the document with you.
Everyone else - wait :-)
According to the BBC web site the iPlayer 'watch again' service is out this time next month.
According to this article, iPlayer is now all-systems-go for a launch later this year.
On Windows only. And it wont have some things that are on 'listen again', because of a stupid non-reason.
Bah, even though the tech worked when I was on the IMP beta, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/19/bbc_archive_trial/ seems to be saying that the BBC's program to let you watch any program from the last week when you want to is now stalled, waiting for managers and a re-write to work with Macs.
Still no word on Linux support either :-(
You may remember I was on the beta of the BBC's iMP (as it was then) software, now called 'iPlayer'.
It's just been announced that it's all going ahead (bar some consultation over the next few months), and now you'll be able to hang on to shows for a full month. One of the biggest problems with the iMP was you only get 7 days to watch things after broadcast, which wasn't good if you went on holiday - the new restriction is better.
Well that may look very nice, but does nothing my shiney new P990 doesn't do, for very much less money.
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Hurrah ! According to this post by Matt Chotin (a principal Flex engineer at Adobe), a full-blown debug version of the Flash player will arrive for Linux at some point.