The BBC has chosen Pushbutton as developer to build its popular video on demand service, iPlayer, to run on BT Vision.
The deployment taps Pushbutton’s Microsoft Mediaroom expertise on which BT Vision’s BBC iPlayer is based. In 2009 Pushbutton won an award from Microsoft for the quality of its Mediaroom design and build work.
In a release issued today BT wrote “BT Vision will introduce BBC iPlayer over the next five months, in a phased release starting in early December. All BT Vision customers will be able to access the service by April 2011. Once complete, the service can be accessed by selecting BBC iPlayer from BT Vision’s programme menu.”
Marc Watson, chief executive of television and online services, BT Retail, said: “We are really excited to be partnering with the BBC to bring the BBC iPlayer service to BT Vision customers. The launch of BBC iPlayer on BT Vision adds to the vast range of quality entertainment already available to our customers.”
This will be the full BBC iPlayer package, offering almost all of the TV and radio programmes available online through a simple and intuitive BBC iPlayer-branded application, eventually replacing the BBC content on BT Vision’s existing 50-hour “TV Replay” package, which offers a small selection of BBC TV programmes.
Pushbutton Managing Director, Paula Byrne, said “BBC iPlayer for BT Vision is the single most prestigious third party deployment of a Microsoft Mediaroom application anywhere in the world, and Pushbutton is immensely proud of the application we have created. It is both powerful and elegant, and provides a glimpse of the IP-powered television of the future.”
Daniel Danker, BBC General Manager for Programmes and On Demand, said: “Licence-fee payers love the option of enjoying BBC iPlayer’s high-quality experience and vast choice of programmes on the living-room TV, and we’re delighted to be able to bring the service to BT Vision.”
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