{"id":50,"date":"2007-09-24T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-09-24T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:13:22","slug":"bbc-iplayer-to-be-cross-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bbc-iplayer-to-be-cross-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC iPlayer to be cross-platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent launch of the BBC iPlayer, which allows viewers to see news reports and other programmes on line, was met with criticism because it was soft-launched as a Windows only device.\u00a0  More than 16,000 people have signed an electronic petition that called on the government to ensure the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer works on non-Windows PCs. In its response, the government said the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbctrust\/\">BBC Trust<\/a> had made it a condition of launching the iPlayer that it worked with other operating systems.\u00a0 So far, the BBC has said it will have a Mac version available in autumn.<\/p>\n<p>As we have said previously, the iPlayer, in keeping with teh BBC&#8217;s public mandate, ought to be open-source and fully cross-platform (as is software like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\">OpenOffice<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent launch of the BBC iPlayer, which allows viewers to see news reports and other programmes on line, was met with criticism because it was soft-launched as a Windows only device.\u00a0 More than 16,000 people have signed an electronic petition that called on the government to ensure the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer works on non-Windows PCs. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bbc-iplayer-to-be-cross-platform\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBC iPlayer to be cross-platform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}