just a note to say that in my previous post typo "imporable" was supposed to say "interoperable".

can we add that little tidbit of information to the main article?

As the H article points out, it’s very easy to get around this, simply by transparently reconnecting when the connection is dropped after 2 minutes. So it lets you stream for another 2 minutes before dropping you. So your client reconnects again. And again. And again.

So the user doesn’t notice any difference, but you end up putting something like 10x the load on the poor server. So who ends up suffering? Not the user.

I don't watch TV anyway and our little 14 inch CRT hasnt even been connected to an aerial since we lived in this flat but i am a fan of open and imporable systems. I didn't even know there was an rtmp plugin that can play iplayer content. However this move by the BBC clearly shows they have no interest in supporting my interests and as such my TV will shortly be going to the dump and I will not be paying another TV license fee.

@Jeff: The BBC provide a special h.264 service for the iPhone... That will be fine for the iPad!

Headline should read "BBC sticks with Microsoft."

Adobe is a member of Linux Foundation. That is why, Adobe will ban any unapproved players because Linux Foundation required its members to respect.