BBC Radio Player - BBC iPlayer Radio

Not sure if this has been missed (it only happened today) but the BBC Radio Player has had a facelift, and a name change.

http://www.lazyorange.net/junk/iplayer.jpg

I thought I'd make a new thread to keep this separate from the new/beta homepage discussions in the existing bbc.co.uk thread. It seems they've totally gone with the "iPlayer" brand for it (stupid name IMO) and I can't say I'm keen on the all black coloring, but so far the basic layout/usage of it remains the same.

More info: here

Yep, I mentioned it in the bbc.co.uk thread yesterday - http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22289&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=96

yes but that is about the new style homepage, not the iplayer

I notice the new streaming function is working on the iPlayer video. hopefully this might lead to some sort of integrated web interface between them

The radio streaming is on bbc.co.uk though...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/

FAIL.

By streaming he means things like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008fn0z.shtml - click play and it will play, no downloading then watching as it streams it.

Ok, Ok.

And it was hardly "FAIL" as you so nicely wrote - as I was talking to the thread starter who posted about the iPlayer Radio service - nothing to do with the TV streaming at all.

Me you mean then....

Yup.

The streaming is great. I never managed to download an show, partly because it seemed to clunky but mainly because it was incredibly slow for me.

I can still see the appeal for some for downloading but "doing a YouTube" and just clicking the icon and away you go is perfect. It's certainly watchable quality and absolutely no buffering so far.

The full screen gets stuck on IE7/Vista which they're looking into according to the messageboards. In Firefox it's fine.

I can't seem to get it to play on my second monitor though (which is hooked up to the TV in corner). When going full screen it always defaults to the primary monitor but I've played Flash full screen videos on another site just fine on the TV. Have the BBC managed to put in some sort of block I wonder?