Back in March, paidContent:UK revealed the IPTV service Boxee, after taking new funding, hired Wil Stephens to lead a European push.  Now it’s confirmed it’s adding BBC iPlayer and Blinkbox as the first UK on-demand providers to be delivered through the service.

Commercial public TV broadcasters are about to get a big boost to their web-based VOD services from the BBC. Nine months after it first announced it, the BBC has finally started including in BBC iPlayer linked VOD listings for counterpart sites.

The BBC Trust has provisionally backed the BBC in its refusal to syndicate out catch-up TV shows on a programme-by-programme basis. It means any VOD TV services wanting to host public service BBC shows must host the Big Screen HTML version of BBC iPlayer.

The new terms signed between the BBC and Welsh-language S4C, which reduce the value of TV shows the former makes for the latter from £23.5 million in 2010/11 to £19.4 million in 2012/13, also include specific new media and website provisions…

This is huge. The BBC will launch the long-awaited global version of its iPlayer TV catch-up service on a subscription-only basis, and initially only on iPad. The service, carrying BBC shows like Doctor Who on-demand, will likely be very popular in the U.S., generating new income for the BBC back…

BBC director-general Mark Thompson has committed the corporation to making its iPlayer VOD service available to UK license payers whilst traveling overseas. In his MacTaggart Lecture to the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Thompson said people like servicemen should be able “to use a UK version of the iPlayer wherever…

Mark Thompson may have renewed his offer to share the BBC’s iPlayer Thursday morning, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. No sooner had Thompson used a keynote address to say talks on partnerships are “going well”, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) released its submission to Lord…

The BBC is now “talking to all the public service broadcasters and others about the practicalities of sharing the iPlayer”, despite initial reticence from Channel 4, director general Mark Thompson told MediaGuardian’s Changing Media Summit in London this morning. The BBC proposed widening iPlayer to other broadcasters in its December…

The idea of internationalising the BBC’s seven-day public service iPlayer reared its head several times over the last couple of years - but the window may be closing now that the BBC Trust has hinted BBC Worldwide’s overseas activities may be limited. Even so, Kym Niblock, MD of Worldwide’s overseas…

The BBC lanced the platform-neutrality boil somewhat when it developed a web-based version of iPlayer last year. Today it’s gone back to the desktop, quietly switching on the new cross-platform download manager we knew Anthony Rose’s team was working on and which may soothe angry Mac and Linux users’ concerns.…

A day after offering its underlying technology to other ailing public service broadcasters, the BBC is today giving itself a big back-slap, celebrating “iPlayer Day” with output across its blog, Flickr, Twitter, forums etc. Why not? After it’s first 12 months, iPlayer has pulled 237 million video views. Here are…

The BBC has unveiled its submission to Ofcom’s ongoing second review of UK public service broadcasting provision, which is trying to find a way to prop up ailing commercial rivals. The BBC’s ideas stress partnerships and claim it can return £120 million to other public service content makers by 2014.…

The BBC has launched a new portal for its TV catchup service iPlayer on mobile to support a wider range of mobile phones, including the Samsung Omnia and the Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) Xperia X1. Starting next week, the new portal, which includes live TV and radio alongside…

When the BBC hailed a new Wii version of iPlayer back in April, I was disappointed to find that the experience was basically the desktop iPlayer website - ill-fitting for the Wii’s TV browser. Now, though, Auntie’s online media head Anthony Rose has re-tooled the offering specifically for the games…

Update: Erik Huggers has announced two important steps for the iPlayer on the BBC Internet blog: a platform-neutral download client using Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Integrated Runtime (AIR) that will allow shows to be downloaded straight to Windows, Macs and Linux-operating computers and an iPlayer functionality allowing Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N96…

Erik Huggers’ first major project since becoming BBC future media and technology controller is a rather prosaic one - changing from one video codec to another - but the irony of moving to open standards is not lost on the former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) man, and the result will have…

BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) dilemma is this - how does it transition to a VoD world when its satellite infrastructure is unable to cope with the demands of on-demand? It started offering VoD to PC and mobile in 2006 via its Sky Anytime brand, but the channel to the all-important LCD…

The BBC has refuted a report it is to abandon the Kontiki content delivery product that powers its iPlayer desktop application. C21 yesterday claimed: “The BBC iPlayer will cease using peer-to-peer service provider Kontiki, which has just been sold by parent VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) and is in line to power…

The BBC has struck a deal with Virgin Media to put its iPlayer service on the internet and phone provider’s cable network. Virgin Media Customers will now be able to catch-up on the past week’s worth of BBC programming as part of Virgin Media’s video-on-demand service. Previously, the iPlayer was…