BBC iPlayer to get ’social’

The BBC has relaunched the website version of its popular iPlayer service in an effort to give the online TV service. The BBC said it had simplified its iPlayer by making TV and radio shows easier to search for via its website. BBC iPlayer is a free service from BBC that lets you catch up with radio and television programmes. You can view and listen to programmes (even HD ) from the previous seven days instantly on the website. You can either watch or listen to a current show as it is transmitted live or catch up with a programme after broadcast.

You can save a programme onto your computer or other compatible device to play laterdo. For this you need ownload and to install BBC iPlayer Desktop. Programmes can be kept for 30 days; after that they can no longer be viewed as the programme licence will have expired. Listen to a radio programme from the past seven days or to a current radio broadcast as it is transmitted live . The option of a pop-out player allows you to continue listening while you browse other web pages.

Another important move from BBC is that Viewers and listeners are now able to share and recommend programmes to friends on Facebook, Twitter and within the iPlayer itself. BBC signed up Microsoft to offer its Windows Live Messenger users the opportunity to hook up to their messaging via the BBC service. The idea is that users can then invite other contacts to watch shows together online !. However, that feature won’t be coming until later in the summer when a beta will be released, said the BBC. If successful, the corporation will extend the service to other messaging services. But at the same time BBC have no plan to create its own social networking sites.