{"id":645229,"date":"2013-03-05T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=134160"},"modified":"2013-03-05T08:16:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T13:16:04","slug":"bbc-bringing-iplayer-to-windows-phone-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645229","title":{"rendered":"BBC bringing iPlayer to Windows Phone &#8216;soon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-134187\" title=\"iPlayer Windows Phone\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/iPlayer-Windows-Phone-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" \/>The BBC\u2019s excellent on-demand and catchup TV service iPlayer is available for both iOS and Android devices, although owners of phones and tablets running Google\u2019s mobile OS remaining slightly short-changed when it comes to features compared to their <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/02\/22\/bbc-updates-its-iplayer-app-background-streaming-via-airplay-now-enabled\/\" >Apple OS counterparts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Phone users must feel perpetually short-changed at the moment I\u2019m sure, but they too will soon be able to get iPlayer. There\u2019s just one catch.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of releasing a dedicated app for Microsoft\u2019s mobile OS, the BBC will be rolling out a shortcut application that will give users with a Windows Phone 7.5 or Windows Phone 8 handset access to the BBC iPlayer website via a live tile.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cyrus Saihan, Head of Business Development, BBC Future Media, &#8220;This shortcut will wrap the BBC iPlayer mobile website together with our media player. Hopefully these and other developments will help to expand our online reach further. Our latest figures show that over 650 different device types can access BBC iPlayer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A shortcut application is hardly the same as a dedicated app, but it\u2019s the best that Windows Phone owners can hope for. The BBC says it has no plans to create a special version of iPlayer for Microsoft\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=MqcL_7wK17k:BH3f7M657Mk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=MqcL_7wK17k:BH3f7M657Mk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/MqcL_7wK17k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC\u2019s excellent on-demand and catchup TV service iPlayer is available for both iOS and Android devices, although owners of phones and tablets running Google\u2019s mobile OS remaining slightly short-changed when it comes to features compared to their Apple OS counterparts. Windows Phone users must feel perpetually short-changed at the moment I\u2019m sure, but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}