February 2008 Archives

We've got some new feeds that should be appearing in Tioti over the next few days, and we think you'll be quite happy about them.

First up, for our UK users we're adding iPlayer links for most of the shows on the Flash streaming service. In addition, we've got links for ITV.com content coming up covering catch-up content and some of the classic TV they have on their site (in Windows Media embedded on the site unfortunately...).

Extending our coverage of other services we have a listing of the VOD content available to Comcast cable subscribers - sometimes it's quite handy to know the show you're looking for is available a couple of remote control pushes away on the big telly.

More feeds soon!

It seems the wailing of doom from ISPs prior to the full launch of iPlayer is turning into reality, according to the numbers run up by The Register...

"In only its first month of service, iPlayer pushed up ISP costs by 200 per cent, from 6.1p per user to 18.3p per user. This obliges ISPs who are simply BT resellers - and most are - to order more pipes; yet there's no extra income."

This is especially interesting as the current figure for iPlayer usage might look good, we're just at the beginning of a much bigger usage pattern as takeup increases through the year.

read full story on the register

Not many people know this, but we've had a couple of interesting ways for you to feedback on Tioti about a specific episode for a while. The simplest, quickest way is to mark an episode as "watched" and give it a quick rating out of 5 stars. The longer, more involved way is to add your blog details to your account settings to allow the one-click "blog a review" function.

Now we've got something inbetween - instant but with a bit more detail. We've added a "twitter this" button to episodes allowing you to quickly tell your Twitter friends what you're watching and TinyUrl-style link for them to join you. If you use Twitter already, you add can add your account details to allow this in the Tioti settings page.