Hi my name is Chris Norton and I work for Wolfstar and I will be writing regularly for Enlightening Broadband. I will be covering many things related to the internet which interest me and which I hope will also interest you too.
Mark Sweney from The Guardian this week wrote an interesting article reporting that internet traffic for ITV's broadband TV service had slowed over the last couple of months. This could be due to its rival the BBC's iPlayer's huge growth after the BBC invested in a hefty marketing campaign to encourage us (Web users) to get using it.
ITV's internet video traffic apparently peaked back in November which was mainly due to its most popular shows such as X-Factor being published on it. However, since then web traffic has dropped off a cliff.
On the flip side the BBC's iPlayer service recorded a whopping 11m programmes which were streamed/downloaded in January 2008.
I have just checked it out and currently the three most popular shows are: Ashes to Ashes (Episode 3), Torchwood (Dead Man Walking) and Dawn (Gets Naked).
With the BBC iPlayer and your broadband connection you can:
- Find programmes you want to catch up on or watch again from the past seven days and watch them on the website through a method known as streaming.
- Download and store them on your computer for up to 30 days if you have a Windows PC.
- Play back high quality programmes on your computer as often as you like during the time that the programme is available
I think that one of the reasons that the iPlayer has been such a phenomenon is down to the fact that every BBC radio station has been plugging it massively over the last few months and bbc.co.uk is already used by a huge number of dedicated internet users - including me. It is also a great service which seems to provide good quality content. I don't think I will be using it that regularly though as I currently use a Sharp TUR160HA Digital TV recorder to watch my television programmes - its changed the way I watch telly to be honest. I commented on it recently on my own blog.
However, if you are going to give it a whirl you can find out how you can use the iPlayer with your broadband connection by reading here.
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