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Beta BBC iPlayer 2.0: PC, Apple iPhone, Nintendo Wii, No Mac

Tomorrow will see a beta version of the next-generation BBC iPlayer launched, this will give UK license fee payers access to BBC TV and radio programmes on-demand. The new beta version will provide access to live audio and radio through a single interface, the current version does not allow BBC’s radio services and on demand television shows to be fully integrated together in the one player.

The BBC iPlayer is a completely unique on-demand service and with it, you are able to get the full range of BBC content. This is much better than when it was first released; now you can get some 250 TV programmes each week for free. The best part of this is you can watch them whenever you want, this beats other services like Sky who want to charge you to record using a Sky box and only give it free if you pay them money for a package.

As the BBC expands and also does other on demand TV services, services like Sky will have to start giving more away for free and it’s only then that they will. It may not seem fair, but until they get any real competition, they will gladly take our money.

You can get a full break down of all the features in the new-look BBC iPlayer 2.0 on this blog, the new software launches in Beta come morning, but the really sad part is about support of any version of the iPlayer.

Yes you can get it on PC and they even made the BBC iPlayer work on the Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, so if all this is possible, what happened to Mac OS X support?

The PC and Mac computers go hand in hand, I have a PC and also a Mac. It’s really strange that we do not have support for iPlayer on Mac but do have it on the iPhone. Would you use the iPlayer on a Mac computer?

Source: Read