BBC Launches iPlayer for Xbox One - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 December 2014 / 4,731 Views
The BBC has announced it has launched its iPlayer streaming video app for the Xbox One. The app is fairly similar to the one on YouView and Smart TVs. It is also compatible with Kinect voice control.
"As of today, BBC iPlayer is available on the Xbox One console," said Senior Product Manager for BBC iPlayer on TV Peter Lasko. "As announced, we have been working closely with Microsoft to bring our new version of iPlayer to this device and I am very excited for Xbox One users to get access to BBC iPlayer."
"For the Xbox One we wanted to make use of the voice feature again but we wanted to add it to our standard product released earlier this year, but which wasn’t designed with Xbox specifically in mind," Lasko added.
BBC is also working on an update to the Xbox 360 iPlayer app.
"We certainly haven’t forgotten Xbox 360 users," said Lasko. "However we will have to take a different approach with them because the Xbox 360 doesn’t have a technical platform that would work with our standard product. We are working on upgrading the BBC iPlayer application on the Xbox 360 to enable the availability of content for 30 days and the ability to find new channel content from Radio 1 and S4C."
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