After much strutting, I've just managed to pull my jeans high enough to cover the 'builders crack' and start typing...

I thought they were wise to the old proxy trick? I know many other country-specific services detect your proxy and block access, however, I would have thought the Beeb would at least be doing this.

It's not that I want to deny other people outside the UK access, it's that there is only a finite amount of service and over-loading it would considerably degrade our oaid for experience.

BTW: If anyone would like to forward me a nominal-to-very-small fee, I will gladly head over to the Isle of Man, find that huge, self opinionated head of Clarkson, and run him down.

Thank you.

Dave xxx

Alot of those visitors will be using proxy servers from abroad to connect because the BBC make it easy for them. The more people who use it the more they can push for an Internet Licence to replace the TV Licence. Funny really considering the amount of security they made TVCatchUp use!

"these figures show that by offering simple and varied access to BBC Iplayer people are really finding it easy to catch up with their favourite programmes at a time that suits them."

Yup, quite correct, far better than that complete screw up attempt you tried to release first time eh?

How much of our money did that cost by the way?

"We tried to notify the 100,00th viewer but for some reason he didn't notice the graphic. We even made it animated for extra attention grabbing effectiveness!"

The BBC is a tax payers funded corp the iPlayer was put onto the PS3 for 1 reason to the many PSN is free. BBC didn't choose the 360 because Microsoft wanted it to be to GOLD subscribers only and BBC pulled out.

Microsoft then choose SKY instead, I wish they would the classic challenges to Top Gear. Like the Rocket Car, and Car Boats ones the challenge DVD there on is completely a mess its cut up and goes into 1 then 20mins laters goes into another then comes back to the 1 you 1st started watching.

right now the best platform for DVR is the XBOX360

why cant Microsoft and the BBC sort this out ??

john