BBC iPlayer in 'hugely popular at Xmas' shock Brits sure love the BBC's iPlayer, which clocked in a record 145m programme requests in December 2010, the Corporation chirped today. That total is up 27 per cent on December 2009's total, but only just under three per cent on November 2010's total of 141m requests. A sign that iPlayer's rapid rise has levelled off? Possibly …
You seem to think that a 3% increase month-on-month is less that a 27% increase year-on-year. well, if you worked it out, you realise that if the numbers increased by 3% (actually 2.8%) a month for a year, the year-on-year rise would be nearly 40%.
So I would say the monthly increase shows an increased appetitie for iPlayer? I know you can probably say anything with statistics, but at least get them right!
"Maybe the numbers would be higher if the BBC's governing body, the BBC Trust, would let the Corporation release iOS and Android clients - or at least stop it preventing third-parties from doing so..."
The iPlayer mobile site works just fine on my Android phone, I'd rather the BBC work on supporting that rather than creating and maintaning 'clients' for every OS out there.
"Perhaps this figure shows it's time to put DAB out to pasture and encourage folk to upgrade to net-connected 'tuners' instead."
Try getting a consistent net connection on the move....
I know people moan about DAB (and with good reason sometimes) but if you want something other than Radio 1-4 on a train or car journey DAB is the only game in town.
(Well, to be honest I listen to FM for the first 15 mins of my daily train journey and then DAB for the remaining 30 mins due to coverage... ah what the hell...)
Supposed to be killed-off in March. Sniff...
Please keep it on the air. It can't be all that expensive to have Mr. Coles sit down and spin some discs. Cutting the show to save money leaves a 26-minute hole that may cost as much or more to fill with less important noises.
Pretty please?
"...not a good platform for radio."
Huh? I'm glad you told me. Otherwise I wouldn't have noticed.
I listen to the weekly editions of more than a dozen BBC radio shows, and then listen to assorted music (Sky.FM, Slacker, etc.) in between. I use both mobile (iPhone) and fixed wifi gadgets (Sanyo R700, Sony Dash). I listen to more Internet radio than all other entertainment combined. I'm out of time before I'm out of entertainment; one must sleep sooner or later.
Thanks for explaining to me that it's impossble. Otherwise I wouldn't have known.
PS: It requires only a reasonably small fraction of my bandwidth. It would have to be 24 hours a day to even be significant.
I don't use iPlayer much but I had to last week. The BBC screwed up the series link for the first episode of /Silent Witness/ and my Freesat PVR didn't record the next evening's showing.
Does that count toward 'Well done BBC for providing iPlayer' or is it 'Stupid BBC arseholes can't even create reliable EPG metadata in this day and age'?
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