The BBC has announced that its popular iPlayer will be coming to the Nintendo Wii console soon marking the second time in recent weeks that the BBC has made partnerships for its service.
For those unaware, the iPlayer offers content from many of the BBC's TV shows and radio stations.
"Working with Nintendo marks another exciting milestone for BBC iPlayer," commented Erik Huggers, group ... [ read the full article ]
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Now this is a good idea...let's just hope they find a good way to make it work...for free...as they claim it'll be...Anyways, I hope they find a good way to make it happen.
iplayer would be cool if it was a wii channel not a internet channel required service i hate the internet channel everytime you update the internet channel update doesn't copy over the old version of the internet channel making the internet channel on the wii take up even more memory.
which sucks.
I dont want to have to waste 244 blocks twice one for the internet channel one for the update to keep my wii internet channel this is insane.
Making the service free in the future? Why not now? In the UK you need to have an operating license and depending on how many tvs you have that's the premium you pay. It wouldn't surprise me if anybody needed an operating license for the Wii as well, once this service kicks off. Nobody gives anything away for free, unless its freeware open source software. Yeah, right.
susieqbbb if you dislike the internet channel so much then really - just delete it - all you lose is £3.50 or $7 or 5 euros you effectively payed for it and you never get wound up by it again. I personally think it's a small price to pay to get rid of so much angst. ;)
It is available if you have the internet as most will know - watch it on your PC now - that alone is a good option. If you have a Wii and the internet channel already then it also becomes available there and I've just been watching it on my TV. It's not as good as regular TV quality but, just like youtube on the Wii, it's an extra facilty.
I hate the fact that we have to buy a license to watch TV in this country but I'm not stupid. If the BBC are getting my money then I want as much as I can get back from them and as far as media services are concerned they are ground breakers, especially online.
So whilst it's not truly free because I am funding it thru my license fee, I have another source for on demand video when I'm layed on my sofa. I'm paying no more to have it than not have it so I ain't cutting my nose off ;)
Don't want it? - Don't wanna pay the one off pittance for the Wii internet channel? Need all your blocks and don't wanna fork out for an SD card so you can have extra storage? Then just don't have it. It's an easy decision. No doubt they'll come up with new unexpected extras in the future - and the more choice the better I say!
Hats off to Nintendo for setting it up with the beeb - The Wii might not be the most powerful console but they have done well to add this facility to it's repertoire!
you can actually vist bbc iplayer on the ps3 but it isn't official, go to ps3iplayer.com in the ps3's internet browser. I have used it and seems alright, some people however claim that it doesn't work.
