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For those living in the UK, the BBC iPlayer is a pretty fantastic VOD service with one drawback: you have to watch shows in-browser. Now one philanthropist coder has written a Vista Media Center interface for the iPlayer. So you can view BBC content on your TV without the PS3 and Wii workarounds, or, at the very least, break free of your browser's annoying viewing restrictions. It's a free download, so all you Doctor Who fanatics should have plenty of cash left over for living-room-destroying merchandise. [Milliesoft via eHomeUpgrade]
Vista Media Center Supporting BBC iPlayer (Unofficially)
3:30 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Mark Wilson
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Umm can you say BBC on Gizmodo?
@vertigo: What?
Does it work in Canada? (we get BBC Canada after all!)
@Rajio:
where is the island of canada?
Fantastic! I love me some Doctor Who and Torchwood!.
"one drawback: you have to watch shows in-browser" - complete rubbish... I download BBC iPlayer video to a virtual machine on linux and run in windows media player....full screen.
BBC contect from Great Britain doesn't play in the US due to license restrictions. Does this player get around that somehow?
This only works in the UK. Also the browser doesn't restrict your viewing size, you can go full screen as well as download on a windows machine and watch for up to 30 days after downloading.
@RetepNamenots: Dood
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