SigEx Telecom : Open-source group to meet BBC over iPlayerby Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

Concerns about a cross-platform version of the BBC's iPlayer are to be discussed in a meeting by the BBC Trust,the broadcaster's independent governing body and The Open Source Consortium.BBC's online on-demand television service, iPlayer, was launched last month and it will only be available for public download on 27 July only for Windows XP users. President of the Open Source Consortium, Mark Taylor, said that the open-source industry group wants to clarificate whether the BBC is committed to the iPlayer being cross platform and how it is going to be achieved.Taylor also said that:"We want to know actually is it going to be cross platform and, if so, how do they [the BBC] intend to do that if the technology is based on a single platform? It would not be significantly more difficult to produce a cross-platform iPlayer than to have one locked into a single technology stack.We don't want to be complaining about it. We think the BBC [is] terrific. We think the iPlayer is a great idea and we'd like to see it cross platform. A spokesman from BBC said that it has always been committed to the iPlayer being platform neutral and is "very keen that this happens as soon as possible".A condition of iPlayer approval is platform neutrality and the Trust is running six-month reviews on the project, "in order to ensure that we move towards platform neutrality as soon as possible".

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

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