BBC iPlayer First Impressions…
…it’s crap.
Here is my experience exactly as it went…
- Load up Thunderbird and recieve mail from BBC saying i’d been accepted onto the beta.
- Load Firefox, log in, select an episode of Hyperdrive to test it.
- Told that I need IE. Grrr… Still, i’ll accept it.
- Load up IE, log in, select episode of Hyperdrive.
- Get the following message:
All of which i have (hence the ticks… - i got a cross next to IE when i was in Firefox)! I know you’re in BETA BBC, but thats crazy! Sort it out! For now i’ll have to stick with my PVR and other methods - lets hope that eventually this will be a viable solution! Who knows - the quality may be rubbish anyways…
July 28th, 2007 at 16:28
Wow. I had low expectations before reading this due to the evil threesome of Windows, IE and WMP but this just takes the piss. Anyone who can get to this protest I encourage you to do so: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/BBCSignUp
July 29th, 2007 at 0:02
Well, i’ve just signed up John, and hope to be there on the day!
July 29th, 2007 at 9:48
Good man.
July 29th, 2007 at 18:22
I spent two hours downloading about 2% of a programme and gave up. Then even with the iplayer turned off it still used up nearly all of my broadband and left me about 10bps.
I uninstalled the iplayer and my broadband works fine again. That was three hours I’ll never get back.
July 29th, 2007 at 18:53
I’ll, er, wait before I try this out then, shall I?
July 30th, 2007 at 1:19
I would Chris….
Cornea - look on the bright side - at least you got further than me!