Potentially huge news for the internet TV/IPTV world with the Beeb's Mark Thompson claiming BBC will soon be delivering iPlayer to the TV's of all licence payers.
Thompson said the BBC was developing plans to bring the online catch-up TV service, currently eating up the UK's limited bandwidth, to televisions connected to the internet.
However, worth noting he didn't give any details. He doesn't know how exactly this will work but it is likely that a new generation of set-top boxes would connect directly to the iPlayer.
He said the BBC's aim was to create a user-friendly technology where consumers "open up the box, get a bit of kit out, plug it into the TV [and] your broadband connection and instantly get IPTV [internet TV] on your television set."
If this happens it could be huge for an industry that, while becoming more popular, is still largely unknown to the general consumer. Be interesting to see how much the Beeb whack up licence fees to pay for this though...
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