Comments on: BBC iPlayer – taking over the world http://www.slashgear.com/bbc-iplayer-taking-over-the-world-1011134/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Sat, 12 May 2012 04:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: shakir http://www.slashgear.com/bbc-iplayer-taking-over-the-world-1011134/#comment-51536 shakir Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:47:22 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/bbc-iplayer-taking-over-the-world-1011134.php#comment-51536 next on the chopping block – google. god knows how much it network bandwidth it is responsible for — dam that BBC and google for offering great products that people really want to use!

the bottom line for me — the ISPs have a responsibility to provide internet service (it might even be in their name). if their customers want to use their product more, then their customers should pay for it, easy as. that is not to say that the 60mil brits should be coughing up £13.33 today for the use — instead this is a capital cost for doing business for the ISPs. and their financial model needs to account for it, and amortize the cost (spread it out) over the lifetime of the investment (the lifetime of these network hard lines – which is a long time)

]]> By: Alan Addison http://www.slashgear.com/bbc-iplayer-taking-over-the-world-1011134/#comment-39561 Alan Addison Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:11:56 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/bbc-iplayer-taking-over-the-world-1011134.php#comment-39561 “Roughly £831 million”

Would that be a much different from roughly £800 million. Or even just under a billion.

btw, the iPlayer on the Wii is great. Watching TV programmes on a computer screen is not the same as watching them on a TV. The low definition of the Wii does not matter so much cause you are sitting far enough away from the screen that the compression artifacts are not so noticable.

]]>