Laney's blog

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.

Andy Lockran notes that the BBC iPlayer is finally available for non-Windows users, in a fashion – a Flash version which plays in a browser window. It notably doesn't support downloading of episodes, as the Windows version does, but it's definitely a step in the right direction – and shows that the BBC really are working to provide cross-platform support. Hooray for that. It seems to work quite well. Thanks to all those involved!

Edit: OK, seeking seems knackered. Grr.

Edit': The new flash version that was pushed out on Gutsy today seems to have fixed it!