Our team work incredibly hard to try and make iPlayer the very best of its kind. It's of course always exciting to receive awards recognising these high standards, but we're especially proud to be seen to be helping establish the future of TV. These efforts are already producing real results too - in the 12 months to September, monthly viewing inceased by 95% (to 44.5m requests). With this in mind, I'd like to extend my thanks and congratulations to everyone involved.

Watch this space for lots more innovative stuff in the year ahead!

James Hewines is Product Lead, BBC iPlayer

• More posts about iPlayer on the Internet blog.
• Visit iPlayer.
• Visit the iPlayer FAQs.

Among the topics covered was picture quality which has provoked a lively discussion on Danielle's previous posts.

Here's a link to the programme. The interview with Danielle is the first item. There's also an extended interview on the Points of View website (scroll down - it's the second video after the "Featured" heading).

There are discussions about the programme on the Points of View message board, Digital Spy and a post on Radio and Telly.

Keep your comments civil and within the house rules please.

Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, BBC Online

Ariel: Tom Williams from BBC Interactive described Canvas as 'connected tv' and said it will pave the way for some 'mind-boggling services'.

Richard Halton: We talk about Canvas 'democratising' access to the living room. If you want to be on a tv set at the moment, you have to be a big broadcaster with Freeview or Sky. The great thing about IPTV is that it will allow different forms of content, like video on demand or web services, to get to the tv screen. And like the internet, there are no limits.

Ariel: He also said that the things that punch through 'will be the things that understand tv'.
We're talking about the tv set in the living room. The services you develop for that screen have to be televisual, so you can't have a standard webpage with little links and tiny fonts. IPTV has to be big and impactful, immersive and navigable with a remote control.

Do you think that this is how the majority of people will end up watching tv?
Let me try to paraphrase Bill Gates: he said that people always over estimate how much impact technology will have in the short term, and underestimate how much impact it will have in the long term. We're not suggesting that everybody will suddenly be interacting with their tv sets all of the time, but I think there's potential for Canvas to change their experience.

In what ways?
Well, it will bring a lot more on-demand content within reach of more people. And the sort of interactivity available will probably more exciting and engrossing than the current Red Button.

Are you working on new ways to link programmes with interactive content?
We're looking at lots of different ways in which interactivity - as we see it today on the television with Red Button - can change and evolve. It's part of the multi-platform agenda anyway, particularly in News and Sport. We've been running trial services, which are programme extensions really: at last year's Electric Proms the test service showed different stages and artist information.

What will IPTV mean for the linear tv channels?
It could create a real identity around them: audiences could go to the BBC One homepage and have programmes of the day recommended for them. And the linear channel could become an important navigational tool. If you went to watch Waking the Dead and you'd missed the previous episode you could use the programme on the linear EPG to jump back in time to get it

That's quite neat...
Or you turn on and you've just missed Strictly - you turn on, go back in time through the EPG hit play and instantly play it.

What about the social networking aspects of Canvas?
Think about what you can do today on the internet and take that to a different screen in the house. You could construct formats so people could play along against their friends, which could work well for entertainment formats.

How many BBC people are working on Canvas?
At the moment it's a bit of a labour of love. There are a lot of people from the BBC, Channel 5 and BT giving up some of their time, but until we have a venture post-approval from the Trust, it's a virtual team. A team from Kingswood's R&D department is looking at IPTV and a lot of what we're doing is piggybacking on their good thinking.

Are you still hoping to get set top boxes for Canvas in the shops by next Christmas?
The timetable depends really on the Trust - they're due to announce their initial conclusions fairly imminently.

Richard Halton is the Director of Project Canvas.

• BBC Trust assessment of 'Canvas' proposals - revised governance
• BBC Trust assessment of 'Canvas' proposals - supporting documents
• The Media Guardian's coverage of Project Canvas
• Project Canvas on the Internet blog

However, broadly speaking we're happy. The vast majority of you have successfully switched over to BBC iD and are using it to post comments on BBC blogs.

And just to answer the Phazer, the bugs you identify are not in fact problems with the BBC iD system itself. They're being worked on but they won't hold up the roll out of BBC iD.

We've also increased our support for dealing with your membership queries. So if you're reading this but are still having problems logging in, email us at membership@bbc.co.uk. And don't forget the help pages for BBC iD as you may find the answer you're looking for there.

Regular readers know that on the Internet blog we love charts and diagrams. The chart below shows new users registering for a BBC iD over last weekend.

There's a spike that coincides with Strictly Come Dancing being on air and people going to the website to join in via Strictly Social, the online application.

The second chart shows the numbers of people logging into BBC iD. It follows the pattern of the first chart but there's also a rise on Monday that's proportionally larger than the registration pattern in the first chart. This is following the switchover of the BBC's blogs from the old membership service to BBC iD that happened early on Monday morning as users wanting to comment upgraded their accounts.

Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive , BBC Online

Update, 11:07: I'm pleased to say the problems should now be fixed - we're not aware of any remaining issues.
Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC News website.

To leave comments go to The Editors where this post first appeared.

The photo was taken at a get together of BBC bloggers where Rory described how the blog has changed many of the ways he works, not least the way that stories develop through feedback from users either on the blog or via Twitter. Similarly the blog's an ideal outlet for stories that don't make it onto TV or radio because they're more specialised or perhaps too difficult to explain within the confines of a news bulletin.

Tonight's Moral Maze on Radio 4 asks 'when does a popular and spontaneous protest become mob rule?' with particular reference to how people campaign using social media. If you'd like to join in (on Twitter naturally) there are some suggestions over on the Radio 4 blog.

Project Canvas awaits a decision about its future from the BBC Trust (and following the Trust's 'Nein danke' to Open iPlayer nothing is certain). The Telegraph used a FOI request to find out how much had been spent on the project to date: BBC spends nearly £1m on unapproved Project Canvas. The answer is the BBC itself has spent £715,140 and the BBC Trust "nearly £400,000 purely on consulting on whether to give its approval".

C21 today reported:

"The BBC's original submission [to the BBC Trust] put the cost of Canvas to the BBC at £16.6m, based on four partners being involved, but this projection has now been revised to £24.7m. The BBC hopes, however, to have at least six partners in place, a move that would reduce the cost to the BBC to £16.4m."

The BBC launched this week what we at blog towers are calling a "a Video wall of democracy on demand" (or a "portal of parliaments" - exec ed) due to its panel of eight feeds from the UK's national political institutions and the European Parliament but the press release is, more mundanely, calling Democracy Live.

Described by CNET as the "worst-kept secret in the history of mankind" the iPlayer is due to appear in a closed Beta on the Freesat platform at the end of November. Apparently it was the fact that "all freesat receivers have had an Ethernet socket fitted to them from launch" that gave the game away.

And finally, over on the other side of BBC Internet blog towers there's the Blueroom. The Blueroom's now on Twitter and it's definitely worth having a look at.

Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.

Fundamentally we wanted to provide users with a product which would allow them to select and read a text online, with the capability to then annotate the text with their own notes and to be able to share those notes with other users.

The first step for development producer Andy Littledale was to scope and visualise the project. Andy on the development process:

"We decided at the start that we needed to spec out the interface in a very visual way and that rather than still screen shots done in Photoshop it would be good to design the movement and interaction at the beginning of the process. The obvious thing was to use After Effects to fake the interface in a video. The video would serve two purposes. Firstly to force us to make crucial decisions about the interface design, but also to explain the project to BBC stakeholders is a very visual way. We chose to work with Aardman in Bristol and they did a fantastic job.

As a Flash developer I made sure that what was represented in the video was also possible in reality. After some disappointing results prototyping in Papervision we worked with Adobe on a beta version of Flash 10 to ensure the 3d aspects of the interface were not just a pipe dream.

With an interface designed and essential prototyping completed we commissioned Zupa to build the application using Adobe Flex. Zupa were also tasked with changing the interface to accommodate any size of book. It was no easy task but they excelled in their creative approach to the job. The books themselves were taken from Adelaide university which are themselves taken from the Gutenberg project and reformatted as XHTML.

We are very pleased with the results and looking forward to adding more social media functionality in further releases to create an inspirational BBC product."

GCSE Bitesize were the first clients for Subtext, adapting the prototype into the Booknotes production version. Certain social networking functionality needed to be necessarily tuned down for the Bitesize audience but students are still able to sign in to access a text, record their own annotations, and save and transport their notes via a downloadable file. Users of the Booknotes product need to be 16 years and under as it shares an SSO login with the Bitesize message boards.

The BBC Learning Development team are currently considering where Subtext could go next. As a product it can provide an evolving vehicle that allows users to 'get inside books', and to populate for a limited period a fleeting social network based around a specific need for or a more general love of a text. Classic BBC TV scripts, news transcripts, pending legislation, the minutes of meetings, collaborative crowd sourced translation - the possibilities are exciting.

James Richards is a Development Executive, BBC Learning Development.

I am the Controller of BBC Online, but earlier this year I also took on the role of the BBC's Online Access Champion and it's in this capacity that I want to talk about why digital inclusion and participation is important.

I believe passionately in the principles of public service: the Reithian tradition of inform, educate and entertain is as true today as it was over 80 years ago. In the world of the internet and e-skills, the skills for life we all need are the abilities to understand, participate and influence the world around us.

But how do we enable this when there are large sections of society who - due to a lack of skills and other barriers - are still offline and consequently not experiencing or even being able to access the diverse benefits of the internet?

Recent audience research specially commissioned by the BBC shows the scale of the challenge of getting people online. 13.8 million UK adults do not have the internet at home and, of this number, 10.6 million do not use the internet anywhere else either.

In other words, more than a fifth of all adults in the UK are completely excluded from the internet and from being part of the daily dialogue that happens, be it locally, nationally or globally. This is a very significant segment of society which risks getting left behind as the web becomes more and more embedded in our daily lives.

The BBC has a pivotal role to play for the public good. So, how can we better use our offer of world-class News, shows created specifically for the web - such as the recently announced EastEnders: E20 - and the multi award-winning BBC iPlayer, to help close the digital exclusion gap?

Firstly: during Get Online day last month we made use of our range of outlets to reflect the message about the benefits of getting online, with coverage about the day appearing on the BBC homepage and our regional websites, on BBC Breakfast and Working Lunch, on television and and on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show.

We have also recently launched a Media Literacy website - which brings together our offer in a cohesive way in order to help people equip themselves for the digital age.

This is a long standing tradition with the BBC and is core to our public service ethos. Over the last thirty years, there are many examples of encouraging UK citizens to develop their media skills: the development of BBC Micro in the 80s; the 'Computers Don't Bite' campaign in the 90s, and 'WebWise' - a guide to using the internet - at the start of the new millennium.

The BBC was one of the first media organisations in the world to have a website - BBC Online will be 12 years old next month - and when it was approved, there was a clear understanding from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport that education was to be one of its key purposes.

We have played host to several initiatives over the years, and increasingly our formal learning content - for adults as well as children - has migrated online and includes: Raw; My Story; BBC languages; Skillswise and Ouch!

While TV and radio retains its motivational power, it is online that is ideally suited to the interactive and multi-dimensional process that is learning. Moving forwards and working in partnership, there are big opportunities to play a useful role in alleviating social exclusion through not being online.

While I would never underestimate the scale of the challenge, by using our ability to inspire and motivate through telling stories, and by capitalising on our reach across radio, television and online, the BBC is well positioned to play its part in encouraging people to get online and benefit from all that the web has to offer.

Seetha Kumar is the Controller of BBC Online.

(This post is an edited extract from a speech given at the Skills for Life Conference. You can find the full speech here. )

My colleague Kerstin Mogull has recently clarified how we plan to make BBC iPlayer available to audiences on other platforms and devices.

The BBC intends to develop and make available standard iPlayer products.

The standard products on TV platforms are:

1. MHEG-IC (MHEG-5 Interaction Channel).

MHEG-5 is a standard that has been used for developing and presenting interactive television in the UK for nearly a decade. Recently, the Digital Television Group supported by BBC R&D, has extended the standard to use the interaction channel for handling Internet video. This standard has been adopted by Freesat and incorporated into the DBook 6.1 used in Freeview HD devices. We have been developing BBC iPlayer using this standard. I expect to start a Beta deployment by the end of November using capable Freesat devices.

2. HTML.

Creating a product that would work with minimal alterations in devices using HTML browsers has been a challenge. While most devices claim to use HTML4 -compliant browsers, we often find proprietary tags, plug-ins etc. Although there is increasing support of HTML5 work and its standardisation of audio and video interfaces, most devices have their own proprietary media players and interfaces. To maximise the availability of the BBC iPlayer to connected television and television devices, we have chosen to take the route of accepted standards mixing it with pragmatic use of APIs where necessary.

The HTML application will be written in HTML4.01/Javascript 1.5/CSS2.1. This means devices that run standard HTML4 compliant browsers should be able to run the BBC iPlayer user interface. We will define a media playback API that will allow 3rd parties to play the iPlayer media assets. The API uses the ongoing work in the W3C HTML working group, for playing video and audio. Third parties can now use the APIs to interface to their media players. If support is provided for the HTML5 audio and video elements, we expect these APIs to work directly.

Caption: iPlayer on TV image from dantaylor on flickr

I am expecting a Beta release of this product in November. The Beta period will be used to validate and improve the above approach.

In addition to this, BBC iPlayer can be accessed by pointing to our Big Screen implementation at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen. This can be used without changes.

3. Flash.

We are seeing Internet technologies that deliver richness in presentation, such as Flash, being adapted for embedded devices. This has gone hand in hand with an increase in processing power in television devices. Flash is getting traction within the television industry. To exploit the presentation possibilities, we are planning to make a standard product available in Adobe Flash Lite 3.1. I expect the Beta to be ready in April 2010.

Our success with BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media, has shown that there is an appetite among our audience for BBC iPlayer on the television. I'm very excited to be working with other partners to bring that success to our audience on other platforms and devices.

This is a fast changing and evolving industry. Many of our assumptions will be challenged with time. We will keep coming back to the products and update them where appropriate.

If you believe your product can carry any of the standard products, please contact us at syndication@bbc.co.uk.

Rahul Chakkara is Controller, TV Platforms, BBC FM&T

Mark Coyle has some background at About The BBC blog.

"Blogs and websites have become as much a part of political reporting as traditional print and media outlets and that's why we're making as much of our video as possible available for embedding elsewhere."

Republic blog has already embedded some of the site's archive.

Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, BBC Online

You can follow their analysis of the data used in Muslim Demographics in an earlier post on the Radio 4 blog from More or Less's series producer Richard Knight. There's also a full and very informative More or Less audio archive available online that covers topics as diverse as global warming and illegal file sharing.

Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.

I know the extended silence has been frustrating you - I've been away from the office for some of the time, and also handling a range of other issues. Looking at your comments and questions, I thought that it might be useful to give you a sense of what I do apart from writing this blog - not just to justify the time I spend away from it but because I think it might help to give you a flavour of the range of current issues for the BBC and HD.

On a daily basis, when I get into the office, I look at the overnight log from the broadcast engineers. That identifies any technical problems with the channel - and unfortunately, as many of you will be aware, frequently highlights problems with HD transmissions. Sometimes the cause is clear - human error or a system not doing what it should - and often we're only talking about a few seconds of interruption. But on other occasions (audio drop outs from the Electric Proms) it is harder to get to the bottom of what is going on.

Like you, I find it deeply frustrating that more than 20 months after we launched the channel the service still doesn't always run smoothly. I appreciate that we are deliberately pushing at the boundaries of what has been done before - regular live broadcasts, switching between different channels and different types of content, but I would like us to be in a better place than I feel that we are, and believe me, I'm working with a team of others (hopefully) to get us there.

I also receive on a daily basis the channel audience figures from BARB, colloquially known as "the overnights". Across channels they are a less than perfect guide to viewing, but they are the basic currency all channels work with. With BBC HD figures which I know some of you look at, there are particular concerns. Numbers of those with access to HD are growing all the time, which must make it difficult for BARB to keep pace. HD households still represent a relatively small proportion of the total TV audience and therefore the figures are less reliable than they otherwise might be. Take those factors together with the prevalence of recording devices for those with HD, and the willingness to use them, and it means that while the figures give us a sense of how programmes have performed relatively, they are just one of a number of sources of information which we look at to evaluate the channel's performance.

Those issues out of the way, the day, tends to be taken up with meetings. In no particular order, the issues I'm focussing on at the moment are....

Picture quality: I know this is a big concern for some of you, and honestly, I don't need lots of complaints to start to worry about this. I'll defend to the hilt a programme like Criminal Justice, which I think looked fantastic, though others are entirely within their rights to dismiss the "film look" that it went for. But of course I want to make sure that we keep up the standards of the HD offer from the BBC, and I want to make sure, through looking at both technical and audience filters (pardon the pun), that we are in good shape.

I've launched some further work around this - not because I believe there is a problem, but because I want to make sure there is not - and together with Andy Quested I will of course bring you the outcomes of that work as soon as I can.

HD programmes and schedule: As you'll know, we're still a growing channel. We're actively exploring whether we can extend the channel hours overall, but meantime there is plenty of work to do in growing the amount of content that the BBC is making in HD. Lots of time is spent on conversations with producers inside and outside the BBC looking at whether they make a move to HD, how they do it, and how much it will cost. I really feel that we are experiencing a sea-change here.

When I started last Summer there was a marked reluctance to consider HD in many areas, and very little proactivity from producers. We are now reaching the point where in some areas there is more demand to work in HD than we have the resources to support. It is a good problem to have, but it also generates a second, much more difficult issue of which you will be well aware: With more and more content coming through, how do we best schedule the channel? This Autumn we have a particularly rich mix of programming, including The Restaurant, The Culture Show, Children in Need, new drama and comedy, new US acquisition from BBC Two Defying Gravity, and of course Life, Strictly Come Dancing and Top Gear.

We know that programmes work best for you when we show them at the same time as the standard definition channels, but with such a diversity of content we can't always deliver it, and we're as frustrated as you are when we have to make those choices.

Navigation: Many of you comment on the difficulty in knowing when things are on. I run the channel, I sign off the schedules, and I also as a viewer sometimes find it difficult to locate content I'm looking for. There are a variety of routes to solving this, and believe me when I say that I am working my way along all of them. BBC HD is not like other HD channels in the UK. Because 100% of our programmes are made in HD, we are not a simulcast of another channel that you know and has a familiar structure.

Because we want to bring you the very best programmes across the full range of flavours from the BBC, you will find programmes from BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, Cbeebies, CBBC, and even occasionally some programmes which can only be seen on BBC channels in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, or on BBC Red Button. I want to make it as easy as possible for you to enjoy BBC HD, rather than to battle with it, and therefore to find effective ways to plan your viewing, and to move between BBC channels to access the HD versions of programmes which you love on other BBC services.

Freeview HD: A lot of the thinking in the BBC about HD has been around making sure that HD does not become an exclusive, subscription-only offer in the UK. You can get BBC HD even on Sky without paying an additional subscription, and of course getting the channel (and other HD services) on to Freeview as well as Virgin and Freesat is an important part of ensuring that everyone can have access to what we believe is simply the next, normal TV standard.

I'm expecting that when HD arrives on Freeview at the end of the year the platform will probably play a significant role in the growth of HD homes through 2010, although I think that HD take-up from the other existing platform providers will also increase over the next year . There are plenty of other people around the BBC who are actively involved in making HD on Freeview, because of the BBC's involvement in switchover and the overall development of the digital terrestrial platform. Really, I'm just a channel provider. But I'm conscious of the need to make sure that BBC HD is fit for the mainstream audience which I'm sure will come to HD over the next 12 months or so, through a variety of platforms.

BBC HD Strategy: I know that many people ask where the BBC goes next with HD, and a number of you have thoughts about what the answer to those questions should be.

Thinking about our service development is just one aspect of the BBC's approach to HD. I also have to work with others to address the questions around how fast we move BBC in-house production across to HD delivery, how we move programme commissioning across, how we work with independent producers around these issues, what cameras and other resources we should use, and how we ensure that we deliver the best possible value for licence payers out of the investment we're making in HD at the moment.

I don't think that HD is a luxury for the BBC - it is the way that TV production is going and we could not turn our backs on it, anymore than viewers would have thanked us for deciding that colour TV was not for us. But that doesn't mean that there is lots of money to spend on this area, nor should there be when across the BBC we are looking for savings, and trying to make money go as far as possible. That of course presents daily challenges around how we make the budget we have stretch to encompass our ambitions for you - the HD audience.

In between meetings - and of course in the evening - I do what I hope you would want and expect me to do: Watch television. I try to look at what we are about to broadcast, and what we do broadcast, but also need to see programmes we are considering for HD delivery, and I try to watch other channels - both SD and HD - to get insights into other ideas that we should be considering.

I also - of course - check this blog for your comments and feedback, and even write a new post when I can and have something to say. I don't want to give you just marketing for programmes and therefore, I'm afraid, there may be longer breaks between posting than any of us would ideally like. I hope this is useful, and even possibly interesting. I will be back.

Danielle Nagler is the Head of BBC HD, BBC Vision.

On Monday November 2nd we'll be switching all of the BBC's blogs to BBC iD from the previous BBC membership system. And in the New Year our message boards and other communities will be heading down the same route.

Those of you posting comments to the Strictly Social website over the weekend may have been asked to upgrade your BBC membership to the new BBC iD system. And anyone who has contributed to the BBC iPlayer message boards in recent weeks will already have created a BBC iD. They'll also be aware of some of the teething problems we've had. These should by now have been ironed out.

By March 2010 BBC iD will be the single sign in for all BBC Online services. If you have an existing BBC membership account for blogs, message boards or other services at some point in the next few months you will be automatically prompted to upgrade to BBC iD.

We do need to replace the old system, but we don't underestimate the inconvenience the transition will represent for some of our users. We apologise for this and hope that you will find the service improvements that BBC iD will support over the coming months for example, working on mobiles - make it all worthwhile.

We've tried to answer the questions you may have about the new system here.

If we've missed anything, please let us know. Most users should be able to upgrade their account from a BBC membership to a BBC iD when prompted with a minimum of fuss.

We'll be keeping you up to date with the roll-out of BBC iD via the BBC Internet blog.

NB: There's one thing you will need to think about if you have more than one BBC membership account:
If you have more than one BBC membership you'll only be able to upgrade one of those accounts to BBC iD using your preferred username and email address. That BBC iD account will retain links to your previous membership account and any comments and posts you made using it. So if you have more than one BBC membership, make sure you upgrade your favourite one.

Ian Hunter is Managing Editor, Internet Group, BBC Future Media and Technology.

According to M:Metrics, as of September 5.5 million people utilised BBC mobile services in some way - out of an estimated audience of 13.2M users/month using 'the mobile web'. This puts us as the 3rd highest mobile service in the UK. Of our users 80% are under the age of 45 and 15% of the users do not utilise other www.bbc.co.uk services.

Due to our size, this puts us in a unique situation in the UK. We are able to work directly with the network carriers - Primarily O2, Orange, T-Mobile, 3 and Vodafone; but with others as well - and major handset manufacturers to customise our services to work optimally. This has worked well for us as we've launched new services, like iPlayer on Mobile, over the last year; however, as new services come to market we will have a lot of work just to keep up with the changes around us.

To this end we are working with others in the market to help define a set of standards we can all work with to grow the marketplace. From the MEF site on this initiative, here are a summary of the objectives:
The MEF Enablers Initiative would have the overarching objective of promoting the most rapid implementation of a coherent, profitable and workable model for "smart pipe" enabling services, to the benefit of the entire mobile entertainment industry. Its ultimate objectives would include:

• The implementation by operators of a coherent and market-focused set of smart-pipe enabling services, based on standards which fully recognise the needs of the content community.
• The implementation of the "smart pipes" model by the large majority of operators, to ensure that the mobile entertainment community could rely on complete operator coverage in its core markets.
• The enthusiastic uptake of newly-available enabling services by content and service providers, so as to encourage operators to implement the broadest range of enabling services.

There will undoubtedly be other enabler services for other types of content, but for the BBC we are specifically interested in:

Location Services

• Knowing where a user is so as to serve appropriate content for the location, e.g. local news/weather/traffic
• Where we have upstream content right issues we need to properly set access rights for where you are

Quality of Service

• Can the network serve video to you where you are right now?
• For your location, what data rate can be sustained? This allows us to serve the right quality of content for you.
• Can we work with the carrier to provide you with a quality of service guarantee?

Common technology challenges

• Common interfaces across multiple providers/countries so as to avoid extra software development work
• Simplify the support matrix for the numerous devices we already support

Set cost expectations

• Are you on a data tariff?
• Will this activity cost you? If so how much - have us ask you in advance
• Avoid bill shock for you, the carrier and the content provider

In the end our goal is to find a way of working with others in the market to set standards we can all work with. In the end we aim to help grow the Mobile market in the UK and to provide better products to our audience as quickly as we can.

Mark Kortekaas is Controller, A&MI and Mobile, BBC Future Media & Technology.

"Millions of people love Torchwood and would probably pay 10 bucks an episode rather than two bucks."

"The press coverage this story has generated over the past few days has not been reflective of where we are in the process - any paid for VOD content service on BBC.com is very much an aspiration for BBCWW and one that would need to be approved by the BBC Trust. Any service would be developed on a territory by territory basis to complement our successful Channels and TV sales businesses around the world.")

Last week's Round up mentioned that BBC online boss Erik Huggers was appearing on R4's Feedback. Huggers' radio performance led Internet blog regular Russ to open his comment thus:

"I struggled to understand any of Eric Huggers' attempt to justify why people abroad should be allowed to access iPlayer free of charge..."

"...we simply cannot fund the potentially huge cost of iPlayer TV streaming outside the UK..."

The Internet blog got a look in with a post on the future of the iPlayer regarding syndication. Some of you have already left some questions and ideas of where you'd like to see it go and we're rounding them up and hoping for a response from the iPlayer people in the near future.

Speaking of syndication (see what I did there?) Paidcontent revealed the BBC's plans to syndicate unsigned bands to online services like Spotify.

Across the spectrum of BBC blogs there's been a high level of dissatisfaction about the closure of Red Button interactive streams. The Sport Editors' blog reiterates that the changes only affect Freeview. Having perhaps accepted that the changes are irreversible comments have turned to which channels and services should be sacrificed. Commenter groovyccb121 suggests putting the snooker on BBC Parliament when it's in recess. I like the image of the mistaken tax-payer outraged at finding snooker playing MPs on their telly.

What is it with the BBC and Linux? The usual story is BBC person makes Linux gaffe, gets sent laptop with Ubuntu, makes some positive comments and everyone's happy again. So how exactly does BBC tech correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones answer his own question:

"So would I actively seek to install Ubuntu or any other Linux variant on a machine I already owned?"

And finally, the current post dealing with HD PQ has 812 comments, and the big news is the publication on the web of the response regular user paul_geaton had received to his Freedom of Information request to the BBC.

"The FOI emails revealed that the BBC is using Grass Valley encoders for BBC HD."

All very Harry Palmer. One day there'll be a book written about BBC HD.

(Ed's note: Before anyone asks the picture is from the BBC German Language Service:12/06/1964 and shows Guenther Bardelang describing to listeners the control room at Barclays Bank Computer Centre in London. It is not, sadly, BBC Internet blog towers.)

Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.