BBC's botched iPlayer to show adverts !

Submitted by Falken on

According to the licence to the latest beta:

7. In future versions of BBC iPlayer you may also automatically receive a small number of TV and radio promotional trailers per week as part of BBC iPlayer.

So, let me gets this right. It doesn't run except on one particular version of one particular operating system. It's got pointless Digital Restriction Management to prevent you doing things you can do to the stuff you record on your VCR or Virgin/Sky+ DVR. It's not even available to everyone who pays the BBC license/tax, even if they happened to have just the right version of Windows, and the quality is worse than your typical maybe illegal BitTorrent offering.

And then it's going to try and show me adverts ! What are Microsoft blowing up the BBC's arse ?!?

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Hello Rachael/Tom, this is not an attempt by the BBC to send commercial adverts - generally, trailers are promotions for BBC programming, not commercial advertising. If you wish to discuss this or the other matters raised in your post, please see the messageboard at www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbiplayer

Hay, thanks for the reply, but if I want adverts, for content from the BBC or not, I'll use the TV in the traditional manner.

Personally, one of the good things about PVR-like functions (like V+ or iPlayer) are to not have to watch adverts (of any kind). I'd rather have an extra 2 minutes of program, but the BBC is pandering to the US concept of a 'half hour' or 'hour' long show and making them only 20-and-a-bit or 40-or-50-and-a-bit minutes long.

Tom