Glastonbury 2014

Is there a reason why, especially yesterday with no football or tennis, the BBC did not show any of the festival live during the day?
Are they restricted because I would have thought they'd have had wall to wall coverage with highlights between the live pyramid sets if they could.

There seemed to be a definite move online this year for all the properly live stuff - although I think the amount of stuff that's been 'turned around' for broadcast slightly after it's finished has been increasing for some years. There's probably a number of reasons for this
- there may be contractual limitations where performers actually wanted their set to be tidied up before TX, or edited so that the festival goers themselves got the full performance and the tv audience got highlights
- the broadcasters are concerned about daytime transmissions being littered with ripe language, which can be a problem at festivals
- festival stages often don't run to the published timetable
- it also helps the broadcasters with their timings

I watched some of the stages live via the website and I have to say it was a bit of a faff - the quality of the streaming didn't seem to be that great and it wouldn't work through the web-browser built into my Smart TV (Opera-based I think), so I had to rig up a PC connected via HDMI. It was wonderful to see properly Dolly live though and the TV broadcast wasn't much different as far as I could tell, just an hour later.

If the BBC really want to go down the road of live streaming, they need, IMO, to make it work through Smart TVs properly.

Not a question for the BBC, but the Smart TV manufacturers, whose implementation of the standards has in some circumstances been lousy at best. Opera interfaces on Smart TVs are not secure flash interoperable which is the issue with many cases.

Aren't the streams available through Connected Red Button (which seemed to work flawlessly when I used it on a relative's LG Smart TV during a World Cup match), or is that only for alternate angles for sport and suchlike?

The BBC ran a blog on this a few days ago - it seemed along with the obvious things mentioned by Deejay their main justification was concerns over maintaining an acceptable quality of the broadcast.