Comments on: On The Big Screen

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:22:36 +0000

I’m outside the UK so can’t use iplayer on my PS3. BUT I’d really like to listen to BBC Radio and I know that is not restricted to UK only (I listen on my laptop all the time). Is there any way of tweaking the ps3iplayer so that us expats could at least listen to BBC radio through our PS3s?

Thanks!!!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:44:08 +0000

Mike I wanted to thank you from the bottom on my heart for the hard work. Cheers mate

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:01:19 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the feedback. The streams were working a few nights ago, so there may have been a few more changes since which could have knocked things out. I’ll take a look this evening.

Also occasionally the PS3 will just stop playing the streams and will need a full reset before it will play them again.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:56:17 +0000

Great news from the bbc blog. Hopefully it wont be too long.

I noticed last night when I tried to access ps3iplayer that none of the streams are working. Is this a recent developement?

I tried going the the bigscreen version of the official iplayer directly and too my surprise this works fine (www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen). It has however got the limitations of flash 7 (limited content, lower quality, no buffering).

This does however answer your question above. Keep ps3iplayer pointing to the normal pc version. We don’t need a switch as users wanting the bigscreen version can simply go direct (www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen) and bookmark.