News
Thursday 08 April 2021, 09:00
Andrew White
Product Manager, BBC iPlayer
We’re rolling out a new look for playback on connected TV - clean, sleek and pared-back, with new, improved, customisable subtitles.
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Tuesday 22 September 2020, 09:49
Lloyd Shepherd
Head of Product, BBC Sounds
The latest on the international availability of the radio and podcast app for mobile and the rollout of the app for Connected TVs.
Wednesday 25 July 2018, 14:17
Jennifer Richardson
Senior Product Manager, Interactive TV
How the Green Button will enable viewers to restart a programme already underway on live TV.
Thursday 02 April 2015, 11:20
John Beech
Software Engineer
...by uniquely identifying devices, we could use cloud based storage to messages between our HTML apps and MHEG.
Monday 30 March 2015, 16:07
Nick Reynolds
Assistant Editor
The next step in Red Button evolution – the Connected Red Button gets a new name, Red Button+, and this will become the primary experience when you press Red on a wide range of internet connected TVs.
Friday 08 August 2014, 05:39
Krishnan Sambasivan
Junior Developer inTest
How we test the BBC Connected Red Button service on smart TV devices.
Friday 08 August 2014, 05:24
Marcus Parnwell
Executive Product Manager
We are looking to migrate the majority of all existing devices with BBC iPlayer to the new version. However, with BBC iPlayer now available on over 1,200 devices, this is a major task and will take a bit of time. Today, I am happy to announce the next wave of devices is ready to go.
Wednesday 04 June 2014, 08:48
Justin Barritt
The Live Guide is accessible from the landing page and will provide details of all the available live streams available to watch each day.
Friday 16 May 2014, 11:32
It’s been over 18 months since we launched this version of BBC iPlayer and I am pleased that we have been able to work with Sky to make some significant improvements to BBC iPlayer on the Sky+ HD platform.
Friday 04 April 2014, 07:35
David Colter
Senior Test Engineer
We developed our Chromecast capability in partnership with Google. They provided us with their software development kit for us to integrate Chromecast connectivity into our iPlayer apps. We were also given some design rules to define how the cast experience was to work in use.
