BBC iPlayer for Mac

April 18, 2007

As you may remember we reported on the mac government e-petition for a mac compatible media player for BBC material. The BBC have announced they are to ‘re-engineer’ the BBC iplayer for function on Apple computers. The BBC also announced they are to open their video and audio archive to 20,000 users as part of a trail of on demand access.

The pilot is part of the BBC’s plans to eventually offer more than a million hours of TV and radio from its archive.he BBC’s Future Media boss Ashley Highfield made the announcement at an industry conference in Cannes.

Our audience increasingly want and expect to dictate how, when and where they get our services,” he told the conference. Mr Highfield, director of Future Media and Technology, said the BBC was starting to deliver content in a “hybrid environment”, in which digital TV, radio, the web, set-top boxes and personal video recorders were combining to offer interactive services.

At the Cannes event Mr Highfield announced:

The BBC’s proposed iPlayer service, offering catch-up TV via the web and cable TV, would be re-engineered to work with Apple Macs and would eventually roll out to digital terrestrial TV (DTT) and set-top boxes.

A trial of hybrid set-top boxes which are connected to the net and can record TV to access BBC archive material.

The desire to “future-proof Freeview with additional advanced interactive and digital functionality” so it could offer catch-up TV and access archive material.

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