Project Canvas is – GO!!!

At long blooming last!

http://www.t3.com/news/bbc-gets-green-light-for-freeview-on-demand-service?=42937&cid=OTC-RSS&attr=T3-Main-RSS

The BBC Trust has approved Project Canvas, the next-generation IPTV platform designed to provide a unified method of delivering BBC, ITV, C4 and Five programmes to the UK.

Delivery over broadband gives Canvas UK wide coverage from day 1. So no wonder Sky and Virgin are bothered. Maybe this will give the incumbants the kick up the jacksy they need to innovate in their offerings.

Sky could have been delivering IPTV for a couple of years now, they’ve seriously dragged their feet.

And Virgin are only starting to roll out their IP-based network.

Canvas has BT and TalkTalk as partners, arguably the two biggest names in UK broadband, so the future’s looking bright.

Now where’s my Canvas box? I fancy some beta-testing!

Idle thoughts…

The classic anti-drugs campaign, twisted:

This is your brain.
This is your brain on drugs.
This is your brain on speed.
This is your brain in stilettos.
This is your brain in a thong…

 

New put-down:

I'm not saying the guy is odd, but he spends all day searching Google… and the letters C O and K look faded on his keyboard...

We love you Bill Yeager!

Did any of you hear PM Gordon Brown's speech yesterday when he was dribbling on about the new 3rd generation of public services...

Was hilarious... tech name-dropping galore...

"I'd like to thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee for his hard work..... and I'd like to thank Martha Lane-Fox for her hard work...."

Was waiting for "I'd like to thank Sir Bill Gates (remember honorary knighthood)... and I'd like to acknowledge Alan Turing.... not forgetting Charles Babbage.... "

Come on, what about Bill Yeager? Daddy of the router! We'd have no internet without Daddy Bill...