As someone on the BBC iPlayer trial I'm disappointed with it. The client is clunky to use (its essentially Internet Explorer in a custom program), the video quality is poor (bad aspect ratio frequently, 320x240 resolution videos) and I had to spend about 3 hours deleting random windows files to try to get the DRM to let me play.
I'm very competent with computers, as a programmer, so if I had a nightmare with this, what is the general public going to think?
I'm generally very supportive of the BBC, and I think we get some very good content from them, but I think until they really open things up, forget about DRM, we will keep seeing these stupid programs that people can't use.
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As someone on the BBC iPlayer trial I'm disappointed with it. The client is clunky to use (its essentially Internet Explorer in a custom program), the video quality is poor (bad aspect ratio frequently, 320x240 resolution videos) and I had to spend about 3 hours deleting random windows files to try to get the DRM to let me play.
I'm very competent with computers, as a programmer, so if I had a nightmare with this, what is the general public going to think?
I'm generally very supportive of the BBC, and I think we get some very good content from them, but I think until they really open things up, forget about DRM, we will keep seeing these stupid programs that people can't use.