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The BBC is [under fire][1] for its new iPlayer media player, which is currently slated to be released in Windows-only form this Friday. Critics have put up an e-petition on the Downing Street website which calls on the British parliament to stop the BBC from launching its iPlayer without support for other platforms.
Already more than 10,000 people have signed the petition asking the British Parliament to force the BBC to release Mac and Linux compatible versions of the iPlayer.
The iPlayer is the user-side end of the BBC's on-demand TV service which will launch in a trial form on July 27th. The On-Demand version of the BBC will let viewers store programs for seven days with some available for 30 days. The shows will be streamed live over the internet, but the iPlayer does not work with other broadcasters.
The BBC has already said a Mac player will be available in autumn, but some people think that's not enough. The Open Source Consortium has already made complaints to the BBC Trust, which oversees the BBC and is threatening to take its complaint to the European Commission.
Speaking at the launch of the service, Ashley Highfield, director of Future Media and Technology at the BBC, tells the BBC (who else) "this is the approach we have always taken but we have always started with the platform that reaches the most number of people and then rolled it out from there."
[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6913297.stm
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