BBC iPlayer available on Wii
The BBC announced yesterday on their Internet blog that the BBC iPlayer will soon be available on the Nintendo Wii. We're big Wii fans here and this is yet another reason to buy one Thinkbroadband make...
View ArticleBBC iPlayer: The "Hidden Costs" of Watching TV Online? - The PlusNet Perspective
A few weeks ago Ashley Highfield, former Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, posted an article called the "Hidden Costs" of Watching TV Online. It makes for an interesting read and is...
View ArticlePlusNet's plans for 2008/09
Each year, we publish what we plan to do over the course of the year. You can see what we set out to do last year in our Plans for 2007 post and what we actually did in our update. We might have bitten...
View ArticlePlusNet in the news 6th June 08
I thought it might be interesting to post a round up of the places where PlusNet has been in the news this week, with a short reaction to each story. This morning we appeared in The Telegraph in a...
View ArticleMore Record Breaking Streaming and the Latest iPlayer News
It's been a little while since we posted an update about the latest happenings on the network and particular what's happening with streaming usage. We'll start as usual with a few of headlines then...
View ArticleBusiness Users like the Golf - The Open streaming on the BBC
The Open began yesterday and we noticed a big increase in traffic coming from iPlayer in the morning and afternoon. The BBC website is streaming live coverage of The Open (using the same technology as...
View ArticleBreaking News - Olympics Streaming via iPlayer
We've just noticed a big spike in iPlayer traffic. I think it's fairly easy to conclude that the traffic is people watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. We are currently seeing around...
View ArticleBolt's 200m Record an iPlayer Hit
Congratulations to Jamaica's Usain Bolt who has just added the 200m Olympic gold to his collection with a new world record time of 19.3s. Plusnet customers "tuned in" via the BBC's iPlayer to see the...
View ArticleOlympic Review - The Economic Effects
The Olympics are over for another four years and the Great Britain has returned with the best haul of medals in a century. The feel good factor that generates cannot easily calculated. What we can...
View ArticleEnta.net launches opinionated community site
Well you're here reading this, so it's a fair bet you're aware of our Community site - a repository for blogs by staff members on all sorts of issues from the internets, on our own service, on new...
View ArticleUS Presidential Election Coverage Keeps the UK Awake
The US has spoken and the world has been watching. After a campaign lasting nearly 2 years Barack Obama will be the 44th President of America next January. This has been a historical election for a...
View ArticlePre-Budget Report - Lots of people watch online
The Chancellor Alistair Darling made his pre-budget speech this afternoon with a raft of changes. We won't go into the implications of these changes as part of this blog but instead just post a few...
View ArticleBT, BBC & ITV bring broadband to the TV
Breaking news: A partnership comprising the BBC, BT and ITV has just announced a plan to bring a new common industry approach to deliver on-demand TV over broadband, dubbed 'Project Canvas'. The full...
View ArticleF1 and The Apprentice on iPlayer
Been a while since I posted one of these blogs, so looking at the graphs for the past two weeks I thought I'd post a couple of observations of the traffic we've been seeing. Below is the graph of...
View ArticleWho is The Stig?
"The Stig" unmasked tonight on the first episode of the new series of Top Gear... only I don't think it was the real Stig. Certainly though the potential reveal has caused people to tune in to Top Gear...
View ArticleTopStream - The Stig
On the back of Dave Tomlinson's recent news that iPlayer traffic for last Sunday's 'Top Gear' has smashed our previous network record for video streaming a particular programme, we present a bit of...
View ArticleMurray Mania Marches On!
Do we have a new tennis hero? I think we have a new British hero! Andy Murray today beat Juan Carlos Ferrero in straight sets to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals. And in what is now becoming the norm...
View ArticleTopStream: The Tennis
Friday's tennis at Wimbledon set a new record for iPlayer streaming, smashing the 2Gbps barrier.. that's a lot of people watching the tennis on the BBC's Sports page! Here's 'Jeremy' with this week's...
View ArticleLinear TV is so 2011...On-Demand and Streaming is the Future
Today, 512kbps feels like a dial-up connection because the average webpage is well over 1MB. And while the average speed of broadband in the UK is now around 7-8Mbps, we’re trialling 80Mbps and even...
View ArticleTwo Days in the life of Football
So England are out with one game still to play. The hopes of one nation over again for another two years. Do we now stop caring, support the winner of our group or cheer on another team (Brazil?...
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