> BBC is state funded yet it competes with all the other big companies to become as technologically obsolete as possible. Of all the times to make this comment

> BBC is state funded yet it competes with all the other big companies to become as technologically obsolete as possible. Of all the times to make this comment, in a story about iPlayer is probably not the most sensible time. The BBC invented the whole idea of internet catch up TV. It was the first big delivery of TV or film over the internet. It was launching in 2005, years before Hulu, Netflix or any other equivalent. The technology required to do this (particularly in CDNs) didn't exist and they built up the infrastructure from scratch. In terms of technology to deliver it, they work with what's there in terms of getting it to as many people as possible.