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The BBC’s Future Media and Technology department has announced the inking of a deal with Nintendo UK, that will bring the popular BBC iPlayer to owners of the Nintendo Wii console in the form of an application which streams content to your TV screens over a broadband connection.

Erik Huggers, (a man who sounds like a cutesy cartoon Viking) of le Beeb revealed that Nintendo Wii owners will be able to stream BBC content directly to their tellies via their console via the Opera browser feature of the Wii, a move which should equal joy for twentysomethings across the nation who until recently were forced to watch grainy, low-res episodes of Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe on YouTube via their TVs via their Wiis.

“Working with Nintendo marks another exciting milestone for the BBC iPlayer,” Huggers said. “It underlines our commitment to reaching new audiences by making the BBC iPlayer available on as many platforms as possible.”

 

Once the iPlayer service for the Wii is live, a notification message will be sent to all Wii consoles in the UK currently connected to the internet. In other cross-platform console and digital telly news, BT Vision have hooked up with Xbox 360 manufacturers Microsoft, and Sony are preparing to launch their Play TV install app for the PlayStation 3 which turns their shiny black boxes into a combined games machine/Freeview receiver with record and rewindability.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 8:31 am and is filed under BBC, BT Vision, Digital TV, Freeview, iPlayer. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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