NEWS: BBC iPlayer comes to the iPhone

By Joe Cox
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BBC's fabled iPlayer is now available on the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch, the first time that the software has made its way on to portable players.

This allows you to stream content from the iPlayer website over Wi-Fi networks. However it won't be possible to view content using the EDGE connection.

The BBC has said it is currently working on other versions of the iPlayer for "many more" devices.

Anthony Rose, writing on the BBC Internet blog, said: "We started with the iPhone because it is the device most optimised for high quality video currently available."

Users can access the iPlayer site in order to access the new 516Kbps streams of BBC programmes, comprising 400Kbps H.264 video and 116Kbps AAC audio.

For more information on how the BBC has done this, and further plans for the iPlayer, see the BBC blog here.

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Joe Cox
Joe Cox
Content Director

Joe is Content Director for T3 and What Hi-Fi?, having previously been the Global Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-Fi?. He has worked on What Hi-Fi? across the print magazine and website for more than 15 years, writing news, reviews and features on everything from turntables to TVs, headphones to hi-fi separates. He has covered product launch events across the world, from Apple to Technics, Sony and Samsung; reported from CES, the Bristol Show, and Munich High End for many years; and written for sites such as the BBC, Stuff, and the Guardian. In his spare time, he enjoys expanding his vinyl collection and cycling (not at the same time).