BBC iPlayer on the Wii

April 9th, 2008 Posted in News, Video, Wii

bbciplayerlogo Wii owners in the United Kingdom are in luck, as BBC today announced that its iPlayer internet television service is being expanded to cover the console. The iPlayer program can now be accessed via the Wii Internet Channel, allowing UK users to watch free episodes of various BBC productions such as Top Gear and Doctor Who. BBC hopes to release a future version as a standalone application.

The service is currently in beta, though, with its website stating: “Over the coming weeks we’ll tweak the video encoding rates and playback window size to get the best possible video quality.”

It’d be pretty cool if they expanded the service to cover other regions.

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One Response to “BBC iPlayer on the Wii”

  1. Hacked iPlayer On the PS3 : DigitalBattle Says:

    April 16th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    [...] up on last week’s announcement that the BBC iPlayer service is available to Wii users, a group of hackers have brought the video [...]



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