BBC revamps their sports video/audio player : Jamie Huskisson Blog

BBC revamps their sports video/audio player

Posted on January 24th, 2007 in interesting, little things

New BBC Sport video/audio player
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It looks great, it’s certainly less like the BBC we are used to. Whoever they’ve hired to re-design the select parts of the site that are appearing re-designed in recent weeks – they’ve made the right choice.

My only niggle with BBC at the moment is their absolute faith in the Windows Media Player.. if they could provide a Flash based player (I don’t care if it’s Microsoft Live based or not) so I could watch things on my mac without using Parallels – that’d be great.

Gonzalez is really tearing into Nadal… maybe Murray took it all out of him.

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Adam Mulligan wrote:

I like where the BBC are heading at the moment. Unlike a lot of news sites, they’re embracing rather modern designs with new UI like AJAX to make things easier, which is one of the things that puts it up as a top source for news.

It is a pity like you said, however, that they continue to use Windows Media Player. I use their online videos a fair amount to catch the news, and I’m sure I’d watch it considerably more if I didn’t have to wait for WMP to slowly buffer each time.

# January 24th, 2007 at 3:57pm