3wdl's Blog

Over the last few weeks I’ve been using the BBC iPlayer via my cable TV service. Although it’s not so intuitive navigating with a remote, it’s still a lot nicer ‘on demand’ experience than watching on my laptop.
This creates an interesting overlap - I’m getting BBC content (which is currently paid for via the license fee) over Virgin infrastructure (which I pay for directly). Notionally I’m getting this content as part of Virgin’s TV offering - though in reality there’s little difference in how the content is being delivered compared to downloading the programmes using my broadband service and watching on my computer.
So with 4OD, iPlayer and now skyPlayer is broadcast TV on the way out? There’s already a vast amount of ...