Watching past week television, iPlayer time shift

Some key and legendary sentences are getting rapidly out of use these days. Honey, can you tape me that show today, I will be late... Previous sentence was forced out years back with massive expansion of cds, dvds, torrents and other file sharing services. Now, beside online video sharing websites like youtube, metacafe and others, we have a new breed. iPlayer gives you an opportunity to watch BBC's past week programmes in two ways.


One way is directly from the iPlayer website via online streaming. Quick, easy and practically free way to catch what was missed. This works for Windows, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Wii and iPhone users for now and they are working on more ways right now. But there is a catch. If you are from UK then you can use Click and Play feature directly, but if you are from any other country then you will have to satisfy with Real Player or Windows Media Player.

Other way is to download programmes through iPlayer Download Manager and watch it locally. There is a catch again. This only works with Windows XP and Vista for now. And again they are working on other versions for other operating systems.

Will other television houses follow this BBC example? Hard to say. Anyway one hot wink for BBC and their iPlayer application. Now excuse us we have some shows to watch. Cheers.