BBC iPlayer reconciles the Christmas TV quarrels
A good number of the families in the UK could avoid the fights over the remote control of TV by making use of the BBC iPlayer and the on demand catch up services.
As predicted by BBC Christmas 2009 would be the most successful time to the date for iPlayer as the a great number of families use the on-demand catch up service to ensure that they do not happen to miss any of their favourite TV programmes during this festive season.
Since the time it was launched on Christmas Day few years back, the iPlayer has received a record number of viewers during last November. It was the Top Gear of Jeremy Clarkson that was crown most watched programmes last year, it has been revealed by the latest records from the BBC.
Erik Huggers, who is the director of future media and technology at the BBC, quoted: “The BBC iPlayer has gone from strength to strength last year, with tens of millions of views each month.”
The service of internet catch-up is now available on over twenty different devices, at the same time it is available on Digital TV services like Virgin Media, gaming consoles as the Wii and the mobile phones. It gets around 5 million unique viewers on an average every week.
“These figures show people are making the most of the choice they now have,” said Huggers, “whether it’s watching EastEnders on your PC during your lunch break, listening to Desert Island Discs on the bus or watching Mock The Week in bed.
The data available from the BBC revealed as to how individuals love to watch the iPlayer on their handsets which results in a great peak in traffic after 9pm, and on Saturday and Sunday mornings, the data further revealed that the consumer enjoy watching their favourite programmes from BBC in bed.
Huggers adds further that the BBC is planning to increase the total availability of the BBC iPlayer on the newer platforms and gadgets in the year 2010.
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