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The joys of Wimbledon with BBC's iPlayer Live

by Parm Mann on 23 June 2008, 14:59

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The 2008 Wimbledon Championships are well underway, and it's a familiar routine - Roger Federer has breezed through the first round with a straight sets victory.

There is something a little different mind you, and that's the BBC's better-than-ever coverage. The broadcaster has covered Wimbledon for over 60 years and its coverage continues to improve. Over previous years, the introduction of digital TV's "red-button" services had already made Wimbledon far more accessible, and now BBC's iPlayer is achieving similar results.

If you're stuck away from your TV, head on over to the BBC Sport website and the iPlayer Live functionality will allow you to tune-in to live broadcasts of various matches.

Granted, the picture won't compare to BBC HD, and the iPlayer Live service is available to UK users only, but it offers Wimbledon convenience like never before.

The BBC holds the broadcast rights for Wimbledon until 2014, let's hope that extends for some time beyond that.

Source: BBC Sport - Tennis



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It is incredible how feeds have changed from being a ‘pre-recorded’ to an effective live stream online - now I can see value in having a PC in my living room if I can pick up content from any archive as well as play live content such as this
Hmm. I'm dubious about this kind of hands-on research.

Perhaps you had to watch the whole of Federer match to ensure that it works?

:)
Tarinder
Hmm. I'm dubious about this kind of hands-on research.

Perhaps you had to watch the whole of Federer match to ensure that it works?

:)


It wasn't exactly long right?


Maybe we should have that central point VPN put in place for people to login to specific things then we can filter bandwidth….


I feel for the large corporates - they thought FaceBook and MySpace was bad….
shame they cant get the cricket coverage sorted properly.

trying to watch the scorecard for the last ODI, a number of times the feed went blank, had badly distorted sound, or changed to a wimbledon match :(

personally i say bring back the realplayer feed, but i “suppose” this is progress