Comments on: BBC using Flash as a standard for web video http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/ Just an average guy trying to drink above average beer. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thinman http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/comment-page-1/#comment-5182 thinman Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:27:20 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1341#comment-5182 Psssst.... BBC: interstitials generally have a better click-thru; Flash ALWAYS does. BTW, my current iPhone hardware can't handle Flash Player: hell, just answering a call whilst rocking out, checking mail, & browsing means my battery life is already sapped before I even plug in my headphones. Imagine what a poorly optimized .swf would do to the iPhone's performance, IMHO... Psssst…. BBC: interstitials generally have a better click-thru; Flash ALWAYS does. BTW, my current iPhone hardware can’t handle Flash Player: hell, just answering a call whilst rocking out, checking mail, & browsing means my battery life is already sapped before I even plug in my headphones. Imagine what a poorly optimized .swf would do to the iPhone’s performance, IMHO…

]]> By: David http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/comment-page-1/#comment-5180 David Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:11:46 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1341#comment-5180 +1 on the IP spoofing! Wasn't it about a year or two ago that BBC said it wasn't going to Flash for cost reasons (they were locked into a deal with Real, or something like that) and the blogosphere was sounding the death knells for Flash and Flash video? Yaaaawwwwn! OK, we REALLY need Apple to support the Flash player - stop with the pettiness Jobs! If the video you want to watch isn't on Youtube, you can't watch it! Ridiculous (disclaimer: I DO own an iPhone) Cheers, Davo +1 on the IP spoofing!

Wasn’t it about a year or two ago that BBC said it wasn’t going to Flash for cost reasons (they were locked into a deal with Real, or something like that) and the blogosphere was sounding the death knells for Flash and Flash video? Yaaaawwwwn!

OK, we REALLY need Apple to support the Flash player – stop with the pettiness Jobs! If the video you want to watch isn’t on Youtube, you can’t watch it! Ridiculous (disclaimer: I DO own an iPhone)

Cheers,

Davo

]]> By: Ryan Stewart http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/comment-page-1/#comment-5179 Ryan Stewart Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:39:11 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1341#comment-5179 Hey Jon, thanks for the update. Alex, do you know if there's any way around that other than IP spoofing? :) Hey Jon, thanks for the update. Alex, do you know if there’s any way around that other than IP spoofing? :)

]]> By: Jon http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/comment-page-1/#comment-5178 Jon Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:59:00 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1341#comment-5178 Further to my last comment it looks like they are offering the service concurrently. If you browse now to the iPlayer site with your iPhone you can play the video content using Quicktime but still get the flash UI from the desktop... Great. Further to my last comment it looks like they are offering the service concurrently. If you browse now to the iPlayer site with your iPhone you can play the video content using Quicktime but still get the flash UI from the desktop… Great.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/comment-page-1/#comment-5177 Jon Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:55:03 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1341#comment-5177 Hi Ryan, I hear a rumor they were dropping flash for their iPlayer as they are weeks away of a release of iPlayer that will work on iPhone / iPod touch. Whether they will maintain two versions one flash based for the desktop and the other (iPhone web app / iPhone SDK?) for mobile users I don't know. What have you heard? I hope Apple and Adobe can resolve their differences and develop a flash player for the iPhone (but that is a different issue). Anyway being passionate about Flex, it would be a sad day if the BBC dropped flash for future versions of iPlayer as they have a fantastic product and it is by far the best internet on-demand tv service we have in the UK. Hi Ryan,

I hear a rumor they were dropping flash for their iPlayer as they are weeks away of a release of iPlayer that will work on iPhone / iPod touch. Whether they will maintain two versions one flash based for the desktop and the other (iPhone web app / iPhone SDK?) for mobile users I don’t know. What have you heard?

I hope Apple and Adobe can resolve their differences and develop a flash player for the iPhone (but that is a different issue).

Anyway being passionate about Flex, it would be a sad day if the BBC dropped flash for future versions of iPlayer as they have a fantastic product and it is by far the best internet on-demand tv service we have in the UK.

]]> By: Alex MacCaw http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/comment-page-1/#comment-5176 Alex MacCaw Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:26:26 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1341#comment-5176 Although you'll need a UK IP address to watch them.... Although you’ll need a UK IP address to watch them….

]]> By: Tomas http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/03/bbc-using-flash-as-a-standard-for-web-video/comment-page-1/#comment-5174 Tomas Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:36:11 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1341#comment-5174 about time they figured this out... what took them so long??? :) about time they figured this out… what took them so long??? :)

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