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BBC iPlayer Has 120,000 Downloads in One Week

BBC iPlayer Has 120,000 Downloads in One Week

There's been a great deal of anticipation about the launch of the BBC iPlayer, a desktop application that allows registered users in the U.K. to download and view a range of programming in high quality. Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, hailed the player as a development as significant as the start of colour television. The player launched in beta on July 31. We can't see it as it's restricted to .uk e-mail accounts along with a registration requirements. Despite some grousing about the limited library of video, a DRM sytem that allows for content to be stored for just 30 days, there have been 120,00 downloads of the program just a week . When the BBC unleases more content, it could be a big winner. Joost had better watch "The Beeb." London Moves to Mountainview, California Like most of Britain's national broadcasters, the BBC has turned to VeriSign's Kontiki platform to distribute the content. Kontiki platform is a sort of mix of peer-to-peer and more traditional CDN. I was at VeriSign HQ last week in Mountainview where I interviewed Jeff Richards, who founded Kontiki and joined VeriSign after the acquisition of his company last year . See this video on Beet.TV: http://www.beet.tv/2007/08/as-significant-.html

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