BBC iPlayer TV downloads coming to Mac ’sometime 2008′
Back in July the BBC launched their TV download service, iPlayer, to a mixed chorus of excitement and - from the Mac (and Linux) contingent - sobbing; the software was, and in fact still is, compatible with Windows XP only. In a recent interview Ashley Highfield, head of the corporation’s Future Media and Technology unit, revealed that a streaming version of the application would be available for Mac and Linux users by Christmas (just in time for the Queen’s Speach, I suppose); in fact, he claims it was always in the timeline, and the error in fact was not missing out the non-XP formats but failing to publicise the coming alternatives.
 
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