Thread: BBC iPlayer: New Mobile Website and official N85 Support!

BBC iPlayer: New Mobile Website and official N85 Support!



BBC iPlayer: New Mobile Website and official N85 Support!
The BBC's On-Demand TV Service Gets
New Mobile Website and Official N85 Support!

BBC iPlayerBBC has launched a new mobile portal for its iPlayer which includes live TV and radio alongside our catch up services. The portal is initially available on the Samsung Omnia and SE Xperia X1 and I truly hope that support for S60 5th edition devices and Nokia 5800 especially is on the way as well!?

Of course, they will continue with support for Nokia S60 widget which allows you to catch-up, stream and download your favourite BBC programmes on demand for up to seven days after broadcast and the new site will complement it by providing a platform to support a wider range of mobile phones. The URL is still going to be bbc.co.uk/iplayer and system is smart enough to figure out which device you are on and will redirect you accordingly.

The new site has a familiar look, but actually introduces a new navigation and a few new features. It is organised in three main tabs - 'Catchup', 'TV' and 'Radio'.

Catchup is where all the on demand content from the last 7 days can be found with sections for: featured, most popular, by genre and by channel; which is similar to the existing offering. The TV and Radio tabs offer access to 'Live' BBC TV & Radio, with a simple 'now and next' view of all channels.
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The new site is built on the BBC's new PHP based dynamic web publishing platform. This gives us more flexibility with respect to customising content to specific devices and so should allow us to reach a broader range of phone platforms than we can with the system we use for the iPhone & Nokia N96 offerings.
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Last but not the least it seems that they’ll immediately add official support for the Nokia N85 and they are apparently looking at one or two more future Nokia devices too. Feature wise, it'll be largely as for the existing N96 offering, with a few minor additions.

This is not such a big news as you can get BBC iPlayer to work on any S60 device with widget support and I am just curious why they still forcing only Nokia N96 and N85 now!? It is ridiculous restriction and they should make it officially available to all S60 usurers!
in the Nokia WRT (wgz) format for the WRT enabled S60 phones!