The British aren’t coming … they’re here! The BBC will move a step closer to delivering what it calls “iTunes for the broadcast industry” later this year, launching a public trial of iMP, which allows viewers to download any show from the previous week that they may have missed.
Some of us call this a PVR, but this feature set actually let’s you go back and get something you have forgotten to record. Humm … that sounds like VOD. Well, now that you mention it … it is VOD. Read the article, then decide. In any event, we won’t be doing it here in the States until about a zillion business rules get worked out.