A few months ago, I wrote an article discussing how the internet has revolutionised how we receive our visual entertainment – such as shows made specifically for viewing on the internet as well as the popularity of catch-up players such as BBC’s iPlayer – but since then, there’ve been significant moves to bring TV shows to t’interweb in their entirety and make UK television programmes globally available via our computers.

At the moment, shows on UK catch-up facilities such as iPlayer aren’t available anywhere except the UK because of issues regarding “international rights clearance” however, it seems that the director general of the BBC, Mark Thompson, is currently in talks with Eric Schmidt – the chief exec of Google – about rolling out an internationally available version of iPlayer which would work along the lines of Google owned YouTube. Read more & comment »