As some brits may not be aware the iplayer detects your IP and via that your location and won't serve videos to foreigners, which is all good and well for brits in the UK but what if a british taxpayer is located out of the country for business or work or even the army/navy/airforce/diplomatic service? Perhaps some sort of login is an idea?

I don't know if it's just while it's in beta, but the new larger videos are of lower quality than the smaller ones.

I did wonder whether they were simply using the new beta user interface to play the existing smaller video files, which are then resized by the Flash player, but I think the drop in quality is too much for that. Watching videos in full screen on the current iPlayer looks better than the new beta in full screen.