Downloadable BBC iPlayer coming soon

Posted Feb. 7, ’08, 12:01 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi

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Lots of fuss over the BBC’s iPlayer and its incompatibility with Macs in the US because of “rights management” and all the craziness that entails. iPlayer works with Windows, and back in December they announced that a flash version of iPlayer was available, but only to users in the UK — still leaving many in the dark.

Well, there’s light on the horizon: the BBC today posted an article on their site announcing a downloadable iPlayer for the Mac, which should be available by the end of 2008.

Why the delay?

He wrote: “Were we to choose to not develop any systems or services until they could be received by every single individual licence-fee payer, our capacity for development and innovation - in the interest of serving those who fund our services - would be severely limited.”

Well…I guess that makes sense. That doesn’t mean I’m going to be patient about it. I can’t wait to watch…whatever it is on BBC that everyone is so desperate to watch. I’m sure it’s great.