Comments on: BBC iPlayer to use Silverlight?

By: johnb

johnb — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:54:04 +0000

Just saw someone twittering a link to this post – let’s hope fingers crossed that iPlayer never goes to Silverlight – ITV Player is absolutely shocking, in quality, implementation and delivery!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:54:41 +0000

If the reliability of ITV’s Silverlight player is anything to go by, this would be a bad thing. the BBC iPlayer works well.

By: Neil Middleton

Neil Middleton — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:55:19 +0000

@Tom – you’re not looking at Silverlight then, no?

By: Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:09:13 +0000

” the decision seems to be good ”
You must have missed the sh*t storm that was caused when the BBC tried to release an iPlayer that only worked on Windows.
The BBC is funded by everyone* in the UK, so to lock people on Linux and/or Mac and/or PS3 and/or Wii out of their services by using a hardly-deployed-at-all non-cross-platform framework (Silverlight) over a much more widely used and generally more cross-platform friendly (Flex/AIR) would be unacceptable.
I *especially* object to ‘your first deployment is free’ type deals with criminals.

By: radekg

radekg — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:54:39 +0000

@Rob: and that is good, that will inspire people to shift to Silverlight and try new ways of doing the stuff. Looking at the stack presented by Microsoft along with Live Messenger reasoning the decision seems to be good.

By: Rob Brooks-Bilson

Rob Brooks-Bilson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:58:15 +0000

I think you’re going to start seeing more “conversions” like this where Microsoft basically goes to an existing Flash broadcast site and offers up a replacement Silverlight solution for free – just to get the tech out there.