BBC Takes First Steps Towards TV On The Internet

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Coming to a computer, a PDA or a cell phone near you: Internet TV!
According to a story in the New Zealand Herald, later this month the BBC will launch a pilot project destined to be the first step in a process that could lead to all television programmes, across the globe, being made available on the Internet.
Says Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of new media and technology …

“If we don’t enter this market, then exactly what happened to the music industry could happen to us, where we ignore it, keep our heads in the sand and everybody starts posting the content up there and ripping us off”


Highfield indicated that the quality of the programmes on offer will be so high that the experience of watching a show on a PDA will be similar to that of viewing an in-flight film on the seatback of an aircraft.

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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1 thought on “BBC Takes First Steps Towards TV On The Internet”

  1. Better yet – just surgically implant the chip right in our heads!! That way no fuss carrying around PDAs or cell phones with TVs on them. We can tune into Friends reruns any old time, and tune out boring family members and annoying bosses. Imagine all the smiles on everyones’ faces as they quietly check out Red Green while still appearing to be productive, or minding the road.

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