BBC iPlayer

Gotta say I'm loving the BBC iPlayer service for catching up with programmes I've missed during the week. Most notably, That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Armstrong and Miller Show and The Last Enemy.

I generally just watch them on my laptop while lying on the sofa. Playback is pretty smooth (I wish Youtube was as smooth) and picture quality is good, all in all a useful service. Hopefully in the future they'll up the time programmes are available for viewing direct from the web (currently 7 days).

I haven't tried the download service yet where you can view for up to 30 days on your machine as the file sizes are too large for casual one off viewing in my opinion (damn UK crappy broadband). Probably of use for people running a media center PC or such but I'm happy with watching in the browser at the moment. I also haven't tried Channel 4's telly on demand as they've nothing I really want to watch apart from Grand Designs which I never miss anyway.

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