September 14, 2009 by Jenny Sanderson
According to reports, the BBC is ‘delighted’ with the success of its iPlayer service following the launch of a PS3 version as part of the most recent firmware update.
According to figures recently released by the UK broadcasting company the launch has been so successful that PS3 owners make up a whopping 10% of the audience for the iPlayer. To put that figure in perspective, that’s actually more than the percentage of iPlayers viewers that use Apple computers (8.5%).
The BBC has also confirmed that it is creating an ‘open’ iPlayer that would stream programmes from other companies around the world. That sounds like a thorny legal issue, though Erik Huggers, director of future media and technology is bullish on the subject, “It is not a concept of aggregation, but federation…It is about making sure each of the broadcasters around the world can continue to have a direct relationship with their users.”
I personally hope he’s right, it would be great to have a way to catch up on all the programmes across the main terrestrial channels, though I fear it may be a little more complicated than Huggers thinks.
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