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In a briefing to selected press yesterday, BBC technology executives said the controversial project won't surface until Christmas.

 

The BBC's new media top brass were out to trumpet a non-exclusive deal with Adobe to offer a Flash-based catch-up and live streaming, separate from the iPlayer proper. It'll be branded iPlayer, however, and run inside Safari and Firefox.

 

The second-string service is aimed at pacifying frustrated Mac and Linux users who are unable to watch downloaded shows because of the Windows DRM that the BBC says it is forced to use by programme makers. Open source advocates are working on an EU complaint against the iPlayer's lack of interoperability on anti-competitive grounds.

 

More at The Register, although The Reg wasn't allowed to attend the briefing because they're "always horrible" to the Beeb, the spokeswoman said.

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it just keeps getting better:

 

BBC 'must offer iPlayer for all'

 

The BBC must deliver an online TV catch-up service that lets users of all computers download programmes, the corporation's regulators have said.

 

It comes after the BBC said a download service for Mac and Linux users was not 100% definite and would depend on cost.

 

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Now they have no choice, it must be platform neutral, gets a big :thumbs: from me!

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