iPlayer HD on the way

The BBC had big plans for its iPlayer immediately upon launch in 2007, and it may be ready for a resolution bump up to HD as soon as April. Director of BBC Vision Jana Bennett revealed that an HD edition is on the way during a panel discussion at the FT Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference. Of course, UK ISPs are apparently already unhappy with the squeeze iPlayer puts on their bandwidth, and HD will only make things worse. We don't know if a ZillionTV style deal is the answer, but here's hoping it gets by the bandwidth caps somehow.

[maty Posted Mar 11th 2009 7:57AM]

Well maybe it'll kick our ISPs up a gear and finally boot them into doing something about their outdated technology - the UK is years behind the rest of Europe.

I'm lucky, I'm in a cable area; but I still get ridiculously throttled from 10mb down to 2.5mb just for downloading 1GB in a day.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 7:55PM]

You don't sound very lucky to me, I get 18mb all day everday with my Be* adsl line!