Guardian Unlimited posted a couple of stories today that you might just have missed. In BBC iPlayer Mac-friendly by 2008, Mark Sweney reports that:
In a link-up with Adobe, the BBC will use the company's Flash-based video system to make the iPlayer service available to be streamed by Mac and Linux users by the end of the year.
Also:
The deal with Adobe will see the rollout of an embedded media player for both video and audio content that will also allow users to share the content for the first time on websites including Digg, Del.icio.us and in blog posts.
Mark further reported that Ofcom raises iPlayer HD doubts, because "delivering HD programming via the internet as on-demand downloads will be vastly more expensive than standard programming".
"We believe that the BBC Trust should take into account the costs arising in this area," concluded Ofcom in its recommendations and proposed modifications section of its BBC HD channel market impact assessment.
"If they are likely to be significant, they may offset the public value generated by the service."
