BBC Iplayer 1.5 Released!!! TV + RADIO

[hello30]

Wow this is amazing! :D
I want to get one thing clear.. this doesnt affect anything with the TV license does it? ie. we dont have to pay for this right? Its because I heard somewhere that we still have to pay for TV license even if we are using iPlayer on the computer or mobile? Any ideas about this? Thanks!

[IJM]

You do not need a television licence to watch television programmes on the current version of the BBC iPlayer. You will need to be covered by a TV licence if and when the BBC provides a feature that enables you to watch 'live' TV programmes on any later version of the BBC iPlayer which has this option... A 'live' TV programme is a programme which is watched or recorded at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is being broadcast...

BBC Internet Blog

[hello30]

Oh right! I get it now! Thanks very very much IJM :)

[IJM]

No problem. I can't see how they can enforce something like that. If you didn't have a TV License.

For instance at the moment Live TV ( Football games ) from ITV and BBC, are streamed around 30 seconds from live, to avoid any conflict in term with ref to a license. But, with ON Demand TV becoming as big as it is, with all these iPlayer style programs appearing. There is going to be a change somewhere, some how.

I love how these these progress, Technology just baffles me sometimes thinking how far we've come.

[hello30]

Yeh you're right IJM. Nevertheless I LOVE technology lol!
Ps. Loving the super high quality of these programs on a phone haha! Dam we really have come really far..

[IJM]

Indeed, let me shock you now.




On the left is a 1GB storage machine in 1987.


Here is 16, soon to be 32GB of storage today.



So 32x the size in 21 years. Where will we be in another 20 years ?

[hello30]

Wowwww! That truly is something unbelievable isn't it! I'm always left stunned whenever I see my 2GB micro SD card just thinking how do they fit all the memory in such a small chip, and here we are now getting 32GB on the same size, and pretty soon it'll be nano tubes delivering terabytes in even smaller sized chips in a phone!! Wooooooooow!!
Have a look here

Ok now I dont want to get too carried away by going off topic and getting banned as this is like my second home lol!

[IJM]

Originally Posted by hello30

Wowwww! That truly is something unbelievable isn't it! I'm always left stunned whenever I see my 2GB micro SD card just thinking how do they fit all the memory in such a small chip, and here we are now getting 32GB on the same size, and pretty soon it'll be nano tubes delivering terabytes in even smaller sized chips in a phone!! Wooooooooow!!
Have a look here

Ok now I dont want to get too carried away by going off topic and getting banned as this is like my second home lol!

You wont' get banned mate. I am on a druken rant anyway.

It is a truly scary thought, about how fast technology moves though.

There was a thread on the louge around 2/3 months ago, about where people see mobile phone techology in a year.

Almost most agreed with the wireless streaming of media and image / video progression more than anything.

I can't wait.

[dynomot]

This is simply awesome - downloading Buzzcocks via wi-fi now. I doubt I'll ever use the streaming feature but to download and watch stuff on the move or on my lunch break is simply fantastic. I love technology.

OK what am I doing wrong ? It says file not supported by phone then downloads a licence key (?), it then comes up with a message Unable to download 'Whatever program I chose 4 Epi.3gp'

So a) where is the file going ? and b) and a N95-1 does not support Epi.3gp ?

[spyda]

huh, just downloaded a half hour prog as a test, got right to the end then got something about content and phone not registered. Chose to acknowledge and then got an error. What a waste of time that was!