Oh wonders of wonders, the BBC in their infinite wisdom has released a new piece of software which will supersede the much vaulted BBC Download Manager. About time. I have never ever used such a pathetically crap piece of software - full of bugs - virtually unusable. So, in true BBC style, without any announcement or choice, we now have the BBC iPlayer Desktop. No, the concept of upgrading a piece of software didn't seem to be an option to the BBC, we are given a totally new tool and without any warning, the old one is obsolete. (Fortuntely I didn't have anything left to watch in the old thing but I'm betting people who did would have lost their downloads for good when installing the new tool) Now, although the old download manager in general required a Bsc in MicroSoft wizardry to operate, it did download pretty quickly - generally a 30 minute program would be available within 5 minutes. I have just attempted to download last week's 'The Apprentice'. The BBC have decided we are no longer intelligent enough to understand download speeds in Mb per seconds and merely give us an estimated time to complete. After 15 minutes, it was still going to take a further 3 hours to complete. Wonderful, at the expense of a nice pretty front end, the iPlayer is now virtually useless. Lets hope this is just a teething problem with their servers....... So, looks like its going to be streaming tonight.
Mrs Walnut Face
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