Update: The post below linked to a piece that rapidly disappeared. However, you can read the original speech, The On-Demand World is Finally Coming, given by Ashley Highfield, the BBC's Director of New Media & Technology, at the FT New Media & Broadcasting Conference 2004, thanks to the BBC Press Office. It doesn't have all the detail but it gives you the gist of the idea.
"The three-week pilot -- called iMP (Internet Media Player) -- will allow a privileged band of 500 of the corporation's staff to step into this new world of viewing," reports The Independent.
"They will be given PDAs and access to a range of BBC programmes that will include the soap EastEnders and the hospital drama Holby City. Also available are the factual series One Life, the dramas Cutting It and Grease Monkeys, the motoring show Top Gear and news bulletins."
Later: "The iMP project is driven by research that shows that people increasingly find it difficult to align their highly-valued free-time with the fixed TV schedules. Homes with personal video recorders (PVRs) like Sky Plus already 'time-shift' 70 per cent of the programmes they watch to more convenient viewing times."
