BBC's iMP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/bbc.co.uk/imp_1.shtml

Interesting guide and a few shots of the service, don't think it's been mentioned on here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/images/bbc.co.uk/imp3.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/images/bbc.co.uk/imp4.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/images/bbc.co.uk/imp2.jpg

looks good, any idea when it's going to be released

Was mentioned last year. I was one of the testers of the service. It was quite good if you'd forgotten to record something. I haven't heard anything about it since the trial ended.

only people in the UK can use the service, could the BBC not use this system to add on ads to the BBC.co.uk site when someone from outside the UK is using it, in a frame or add them on above the grey bar at the top?

Perhaps they should make it a UK only service like they do with the current BBCi broadband content, where attempting to access the content outside the IP ranges of a certain ISP results in a grey screen?

Although the adding ads onto the BBC site would seem rather technical, seeing as the pages on the BBC site is currently free of ads - I would assume they would have to 'plan in' a space in which to have a banner ad or something.

that wouldn't affect the rights issues and would raise nowhere near enough cash to compensate for the "licence fee paying for johnny foreigner to watch shows" business.

The annoying this is that the BBC count some ISPs as foreign - im counted as being in America because i have an American IP even though I'm here in England. I take it this would be refused to me like many other services already are.

TBH I'd have thought that the BBC would make this service exclusively for legal licence holders, wouldn't this be easy to implement as I think licences have unique codes on them which could be referred to on a database?

Surely that is an issue for your ISP, not the BBC?