The BBC's display of asking the public what technology it should use for its iPlayer system looks particularly shabby now that it's settled on a system that no-one asked for. That the iPlayer is MS-derived, Windows-only, DRM'd to the gills, and of a general type only tech-illiterate middle managers can be convinced to buy, is one thing: our sister blog, Compiler, has the necessary excoriation. That the corporation now has the brass balls to publish a "news" story about how the public "welcomes" the player is entirely another.
Dear Beeb: just use the platform-independent YouTube-alike system that everyone requested and stop funnelling taxpayers' money to the best bidder. Gussied-up FLA files are the de facto industry standard for media delivery over the internet, and it's obvious now that you just put the whole deal "out to tender" while making a song and dance of public involvement. If nothing else, it should be clear to you now that the outcry such theatrics were designed to avoid has resulted anyway.
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