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# BBC iPlayer coming to Freesat
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## The BBC's iPlayer catch-up television service will be available on the
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free satellite TV service, Freesat
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![Screen grab from BBC iPlayer Online Catch-up Service: BBC iPlayer to have
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greater parental controls][1]
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The BBC has launched a beta trial of its iPlayer catch-up TV service on
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Freesat set-top boxes
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By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor 10:42AM GMT 05 Nov 2009
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[Comments][2]
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A limited roll-out of the iPlayer service will start at the end of this month,
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with a full service launched on the Freesat platform early next year. It will
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enable viewers to catch up on programmes screened in the last seven days on
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the TV in their living room rather than on a computer.
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Freesat, a joint venture between the BBC and ITV, is a subscription-free
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satellite TV service that gives viewers access to more than 140 television and
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radio channels, and offers a selection of high-definition programming from
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both the BBC and ITV.
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Rahul Chakkara, head of TV platforms at the BBC, said that all customers with
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a high-definition Freesat set-top box will have access to the service.
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The BBC has struck several deals to "free up" its iPlayer service, so that
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viewers have more choice about how and where they watch shows they've missed.
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In June last year, the service was made available to Virgin Media customers
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through their set-top boxes, and user of Sony's PlayStation 3 games console
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and Nintendo's Wii are also able to use those devices to access iPlayer.
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Mr Chakkara said that a quarter of all BBC iPlayer views came through Virgin
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Media set-top boxes, and that a total of 200 million programmes had been
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viewed on the BBC's catch-up TV platform.
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08 Dec 2009
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* [Culture of compliance is making British TV 'bland' says Channel 4
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boss][4]
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* [TV of the future 'will predict what you want to watch'][8]
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28 Oct 2009
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He said that it has been "a challenge" to adapt the iPlayer technology to make
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it work on televisions, but this was a crucial element of the corporation's
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future strategy.
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"This is a fast changing and evolving industry," he wrote. "Many of our
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assumptions will be challenged with time. We will keep coming back to the
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products and update them where appropriate."
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