BBC iPlayer added to Xbox Microsoft has added BBC iPlayer to the Xbox. Various sites last week expressed their surprise about the upcoming the release, but it's one Microsoft and the Corporation signalled back in October 2011, as Reg Hardware reported at the time. BBC iPlayer Other IPTV services promised back then include Channel 4's 4OD and Channel …
Tunerfree MCE is pretty good but it's a bit buggy, especially with the flash streams for HD. Also the way it caches the info from the net was probably necessary when it was first written but now I'm sure there are better ways to get live data rather than finding the program you want to watch is never there.
Of course technically Microsoft could just use the same interface as you get on Freeview HD.
I'm not going in via browser, I go left a few times in the XMB thing where theres an Icon called BBC iPlayer also got Lovefilm which also has poor res.
I do have a pretty unstable connection it goes through a 3G modem but if i press the PS button the text comes up saying do you want to close the app and the text is all fuzzy. Which I don't think is down to my connection, maybe there's a setting wrong.
I think the last thing i watched successfully through it was the doctor who episode "the girl who waited" which took me the weekend just to get up to date again. Then tried to watch something else, probably top gear and it said it needed to update which is when I gave up.
I promise I have a PS3 I bought it when the GT5 prolog thing came out :P, and it has been used as a blu-ray player ever since.
I also have a xbox 360 which for balance refuses to stream media from my PC properly, but otherwise I get on better with as typically it never says i need to update software to play something :P.
I'll probably be playing Journey next on the PS3 if the 3G behaves
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When attempting to use 4OD through the Xbox recently I was informed that I needed an Xbox Live Gold account. Does iPlayer have the same restriction?
If so, is it right for Microsoft to be profiting from a license payer trying to access FTA programming on the Xbox they paid for, using the bandwidth they also pay for? Maybe Microsoft do some value add to provide the service to justify making it Gold only.
The whole camera watching you watch television is just hilarious really.
Television and advertising bosses can now watch in real time what people think of their shows and adverts, all it would take is an extra clause added to the terms and conditions that nobody ever reads.
Personally the 4oD service on Xbox has got to win stupid of the month award, each time you start a show it tells you "You are watching 4oD on Xbox" Really!!! I never would have known.
Why is this even news? I've been watching iPlayer on my xBox (not a 360) for years. A simple soft-mod and XBMC install does the trick. Not need for an MS Live account or any other crap.
Just one more example of how far behind the curve MS is and why hardware platforms should be opened up - the tinkerers will get the functionality that you want out well before the corporates.
"Other IPTV services promised back then include Channel 4's 4OD and Channel 5's Demand Five. They made it in plenty of time - neither Microsoft nor the BBC said why it had taken so long to port iPlayer over."
4OD and Demand 5 are both identical to the Lovefilm app, they even say that when you load them up. iPlayer seems to be a completely different app, rather than just a reskin of an existing one
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