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The BBC Trust has given final approval for the iPlayer, the corporation's proposed online seven-day catch-up TV service.
After the trust's first application of its new public value test, approval was granted with two further amendments proposed by the trust in addition to BBC management's original plans.
The trust has now said that no more than 15% of the content on the iPlayer can be available for so-called "series stacking", where users can download multiple episodes of a particular TV series.
Only certain types of programming will be offered this way, such as limited-run drama series. But the iPlayer will allow users to stack up previous episodes for the duration of the series, not just seven days after it aired. All other content on the iPlayer will be less than seven days old.
The second change is that after noting what it described as "strong public demand", the trust will audit the BBC's progress in making the iPlayer platform neutral.
BBC management originally proposed that the iPlayer would run only on Microsoft's Windows operating system and the Windows Media Player 10 because it wanted to use Microsoft digital-rights management technology.
Management also told the trust it would be unworkable to make the service available on other operating systems, such as Apple and Linux, within two years.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2068878,00.html
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The BBC Trust has given final approval for the iPlayer, the corporation's proposed online seven-day catch-up TV service.
After the trust's first application of its new public value test, approval was granted with two further amendments proposed by the trust in addition to BBC management's original plans.
The trust has now said that no more than 15% of the content on the iPlayer can be available for so-called "series stacking", where users can download multiple episodes of a particular TV series.
Only certain types of programming will be offered this way, such as limited-run drama series. But the iPlayer will allow users to stack up previous episodes for the duration of the series, not just seven days after it aired. All other content on the iPlayer will be less than seven days old.
The second change is that after noting what it described as "strong public demand", the trust will audit the BBC's progress in making the iPlayer platform neutral.
BBC management originally proposed that the iPlayer would run only on Microsoft's Windows operating system and the Windows Media Player 10 because it wanted to use Microsoft digital-rights management technology.
Management also told the trust it would be unworkable to make the service available on other operating systems, such as Apple and Linux, within two years.
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