ITV.com Discussion Thread

Yeah, same now. I had to reinstall Silverlight, weirdly.

YAY installed MS Silverlight and got no flipping picture on ITV.com's Catch Up

Should be noted that Silverlight isn't currently compatible (for most people) with the Firefox 3 beta's.

Is it just me, or does the Click To Play look a lot like iPlayer?

e.g. http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/Video/default.html?ViewType=5&Filter=16671

The "Play" links seem to work on the homepage now (for Coronation Street, etc).

Still a lot of bugs but there are signs of improvement. The player on all pages must switch to Widescreen too. It could do with being a little bigger also.

Link underlines all over the place and no padding on a lot of the elements leaves it feeling unpolished and cluttered. It's also sluggish, buggy and downright ugly in places (bits of a Silverlight background showing through 3 video links in the homepage player for example, or the player extending with two sets of video controls etc)

Hope they fix it soon.

So am I the only who can't get it to work?

Finally working for me today, the quality is no where like BBCiPlayer it's like a widescreen version of YT (who is in the middle of upgrading the quality of clips)

Is this supposed to be the new look ITV.com? It looks quite the opposite. None of the video's work since this tweak and I just get adverts on a loop.

I agree about the Player on each page - I'm not even sure if it's needed on every page...? They could just have a link that lets it load up in a popup - would then be able to have the Player bigger and widescreen.

The new itv site is worse than the old style ones because its so bland and boring!

I have to agree about the bugginess of the new ITV Catchup site. On each one of the videos I've tried to view on it so far,
there's the top part of the Silverlight logo stuck in the top left corner when viewing full screen, which is an unnecessary
distraction, and worse, the picture lags about two seconds behind the sound, making the videos unwatchable.

The UI and the layout of the navigation section is clunky, and looks it's trying too hard with those shiny black widgets.

Despite the previous version of ITV Catchup requiring IE (or IETab on SeaMonkey and Firefox) for it to work, and thus
restricting it's availability to Windows PC users only, it worked (at least marginally) better than the current mess.

Well I'm quite impressed, maybe its just my computer and internet, but its working lovely, and looks much better than before, even though many things remind me of the BBC's iPlayer.