The BBC today launched a new version of BBC iPlayer for TV.For the first time, BBC iPlayer on TV is designed specifically for the show, and easy to use. The new version allows the audience they want to directly control the TV, in a design adapted to the living room, so the BBC Player experience feels just like TV.
The new version is as follows:
Just as television - a new, simplified, highly visual design that TV is as easy as flipping through the channels when watching TV
Easy to use - much improved search to help you find programs with little effort, quick access to programs that you choose in your favorites, and tips to help you find something new to enjoy
Custom - make your own BBC iPlayer their choice of "favorite" programs, see the results of previous research and get back to the last time you saw the program
BBC iPlayer is now available in over 300 different television sets connected, and this new version - the initial launch of the Sony PlayStation 3 - will go to television screens with many others in the coming months as the iPlayer BBC evolves beyond catching up on a connected TV experience completely.
Daniel Danker, Director General of the BBC, Programs & On Demand, said: "The BBC iPlayer has been a huge success with today's announcement, we transform the iPlayer in its most natural home: .. right on the living room TV by creating a product that is so simple and intuitive as flipping TV channels, the BBC provides on-demand television audiences general public through the United Kingdom.
"Last week, Ofcom reported that 10% of televisions sold in the United Kingdom is an internet-ready. But the BBC iPlayer is already available in more than 300 connected to a TV and a Blu-ray Disc, which has led an increase of five times in the iPlayer on TV in the last six months. At the rate of growth over the coming years we may well see more than half of the iPlayer for the living room directly to the TV. "
Notes to Editors
The BBC uses the term "connected to the TV," to describe any device capable of providing a program in your living room TV via the Internet, including:
IPTV (Pay TV), platforms (for example, Virgin Media, BT Vision, Sky)
Game consoles (eg Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox)
TNT HD, YouView, Freesat HD set-top boxes
"Smart" Internet-ready televisions (for example, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic)
Other devices (eg, Boxee, Blu-ray Disc)
Statistics
Ten percent (1 million) of all televisions sold in Britain in 2010 were ready for the Internet (Report of the Ofcom Communications Market 2011)
Predictions are that up to 36 million Internet-capable TVs will be installed in homes in the UK in late 2016. (3 Reasons Ltd, Spring 2011). Note: The serial number of projects technically able to connect the serial connect real low, the rate of penetration, consumer behavior, etc.
BBC iPlayer programming on televisions connected applications has increased more than five times from December 2010 to July 2011, 579,000 to 3.1 million applications in July
Many licensing rights of taxpayers are using game consoles to access the BBC iPlayer - 10 million program applications in July 2011
Usage statistics are published monthly BBC iPlayer on the BBC Internet blog
BBC iPlayer video-on-demand BBC has launched a web service on Christmas Day 2007 and has since evolved to increase the radio, live TV channels in HD, and social functioning. As part of the BBC to increase the availability of the BBC iPlayer, the service is now available on hundreds of systems and equipment, such as television platforms, internet TV, mobile phones, tablets, and game consoles. A complete list of devices found at BBC iPlayer help.