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Sep 2, 2021 · Creating a new player for BBC audio and video content has allowed us to drop the old code, rebuild a player in a more efficient way and be able to add up-to-date features and technologies to the ...
- What’s New in BBC Iplayer?
- Optimised For iPad and iPhone
- BBC Iplayer: New Home screen
- New Find Panel
- Channel Pages
- Series Collections
- New Playback Window
The new BBC iPlayer has a range of new features. And BBC iPlayer is especially interesting to Apple Mac, iPad and iPhone users. Here are some of the new things to look out for: 1. BBC iPlayer website is touch-screen optimised for iPad and iPhone (and other mobile devices) 2. All new Home Screen 3. New optimised Find options 4. Channel Pages 5. Seri...
The new BBC iPlayer website is now optimised to work across multiple browsers on both desktop, tablet and mobile devices. This is particularly useful for Apple users because it no means that you can use BBC iPlayer directly on an iPhone or iPad alongside the BBC iPlayer app. There’s always been BBC iPlayer web support for the iPhone, and the app re...
There is a new home screen for BBC iPlayer that is far more visual than before. Gone are the Featured and Most Popular tabs, and also removed are the panes of featured programmes. In their place sit a horizontal stream of programs that you drag and slide between (or tap using the Left and Right arrows on a Desktop version). The new BBC iPlayer site...
The new BBC iPlayer has an enhanced Find Programme area. It has intelligent search, so tapping ‘c’ brings up programmes starting with a C: Country file, Casualty, Charlie and Lola and so on. It also brings up categories such as Comedy and channels like CBeebies. The new Find panel also remembers your history and previous searches, and favourites so...
BBC iPlayer has a new focus on channels (presumably to aid BBC3s impending digital only status). Above the programs are One, Two, Three, Four and others. Tapping on these brings up a list of programs from that channel. They seem to be curated rather than Most Popular. There is also a TV Guide and large On Now and On Next areas are designed to push ...
Another new feature of BBC iPlayer is the presence of themed advice collections. When looking at a programme in a series the number of programmes below will appear. Tapping on Formula 1 brings up a all the previous races in that season. We think this feature will be incredibly popular.
The playback of programmes remains a strength of BBC iPlayer. Quality is still excellent but the in-screen viewer is slightly larger than before. We also think the placement of icons is a little more intuitive. If you’re watching a series it now auto plays the next episode in the series, so like Hulu or Netflix you can start at the beginning and si...
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Mar 11, 2014 · The BBC iPlayer mobile and tablet apps will be updated with the new interface in the coming months. The new iPlayer has been designed for a multiscreen world, so the experience is consistent, but ...
Feb 13, 2024 · The BBC says that downloads will be unaffected for mobile and tablet users since downloading is built into the iPlayer app for those devices. It’s just PC, Mac and web users that will be ...
Mar 11, 2014 · Watching shows. The new iPlayer uses the new BBC Standard Media Player that lets you effectively series link programmes to make sure you don't miss others in the series and fire up the next ...
Feb 13, 2024 · The BBC has published a timeline of the planned changes: 2 February - new downloads of the BBC iPlayer Downloads app end. 11 March - downloading programmes from the web will end. Users will still ...
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Jun 16, 2016 · The Embedded Media Player is BBC's new way of displaying video and audio. It uses Flash software and plays directly in a text story or index. It is used to bring you up-to-the minute reports in ...
