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    Question TV online, BBC iPlayer

    Anyone else using/used this? I think it's pretty brilliant, except for a few issues such as needing to use Internet Explorer for the download links, subtitles/signing in your downloaded videos (you can't change it, it's actually part of the image) when you haven't selected them, and how it first attempts always to run in the background when you don't use it (leeching your connection something horrendous) - easily fixed though.

    The rest of it though, really great - Never been a big TV watcher but this makes it really easy to just pick and choose whatever you want.

    BBC - BBC iPlayer - Home for the uninitiated - it's technically still in closed beta but pretty much anyone can get in.

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    Re: TV online, BBC iPlayer

    Didn't work on my XP-64bit install which kind of sucked (I know it's built on Server 2003 but still...). Going to have to swap over the installs of my media and main PCs just so I can watch what I already pay for with a licence fee in the lounge.

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    Re: TV online, BBC iPlayer

    I like it, but the majority of what I've tried to find on iPlayer isn't there - Heroes, Match of the Day, for example.

    Once you've gone into the preferences, which I do on everything I install, you can easily stop it starting with Windows and then it doesn't seem to cause any problem at all. I think it's something I'll just dip into when we've missed something with the PVR so there's no need for it in the background. Don't remember it leeching any connection, it just downloads something when I tell it to. Doesn't take too long on my 8Mb connection either. One thing I downloaded had subtitles, the others don't?

    I think it's good for what it does and am happy with it, and so was my fiancé when I got Robin Hood and Strictly Come Dancing on it. Oh - and the picture quality was surprisingly good, if you sit and watch it as far away as you might do a TV.

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    Re: TV online, BBC iPlayer

    Tried it - wasn't overly impressed because of demands on cpu usage.

    I think I'd better wait till I have a more powerful system to use this

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    Re: TV online, BBC iPlayer

    Requirements;

    XP - tick
    IE 6 or later - cross
    MP10 or later - cross

    Maybe when it gets out of Beta they'll cater for everyone else.
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    Re: TV online, BBC iPlayer

    I've been using iPlayer for a couple of months now, and it's superior to 4od in terms of video quality.

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