The BBC has announced that it is planning to add a new pre-booking function into its popular TV-on-demand service, iPlayer. The new feature is set to allow TV viewers to pre-booked shows for up to a week before they air on national TV, meaning they instantly download without have to search for the show beforehand.
The BBC has already been targeted by ISPs as the main cause of peak-time slowdown and excessive bandwidth usage and so this new announcement will undoubtedly be received with frustration on the service providers’ behalf. In order to keep strain down to a minimum, however, the iPlayer will download programming at an “optimum time for the user, the UK internet and the BBC.”
Source: Tech Digest
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