Archive for April, 2008

BBC iPlayer for the Wii

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I'm coming out of hibernation to celebrate this announcement. Finally I will be able to watch TV in my room again; there's no aerial signal up here.

An early version of the service is available from 9 April.

Woohoo! I'll be trying this. The only downside is that it's apparently only available in the internet channel. It would be much cooler to have an iPlayer icon on the Wii's dashboard. Can't have everything I guess.

I can only laugh at how the ISPs will moan about the increased bandwidth from this. Seriously, it seems that they're only going after the BBC on this one because they have an identifiable target; with filesharing there's no one individual to go after. Shut up and start improving your networks, please. There are only going to be more and more bandwidth-intensive applications like this coming out and ISPs are not going to stop this. They need to roll with it.