Age verification systems may be something that the Tory government has been fixated on recently, but the BBC has yet to implement one to crack down on licence fee evaders. Instead, it will imminently ...

When the beta of the BBC's iPlayer launched in July 2007, Netflix had only just pivoted to streaming movies over the internet. Fast forward a decade and Netflix is dominant. And that's a worry the BBC ...

THE BBC is considering locking iPlayer for non-TV licence payers, according to reports. Whilst a valid licence is a legal requirement for iPlayer, enforcing stricter measurements would cut-off those ...

Outside the UK, BBC iPlayer won’t play. Every show and live channel is replaced by a region error, even if you pay for a TV license at home and you’re only away for a week. The BBC checks your IP ...

A BBC executive has revealed that BBC iPlayer could be "gated" in the future, by refusing access to UK viewers who don't pay the TV Licence fee. This would effectively mean that you are paying to use ...

UK TV in Canada requires a UK IP address for BBC iPlayer, ITVX, and Channel 4. We unblocked them on three VPNs, plus My5 and ...

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The BBC gas updated its iPlayer offerins once again, adding the ability to download TV shows for viewing on portable media players. Unfortunately, the BBC is using Windows Media DRM for the content, ...

Nintendo’s Wii may have stormed the console hardware charts, but it’s always been rather lacklustre on the heavy-duty multimedia front. Nowhere has that been more apparent than in its support for the ...

A guide to 4K UHD content on BBC iPlayer: TV expert John Archer gives his opinion on all the pros and cons of Ultra HD content on BBC iPlayer, as headlined by David Attenborough’s Planet Earth 2. When ...