BBC iPlayer for BT Vision - Developed by Pushbutton

Pushbutton were chosen to build the BBC's popular video on demand service, iPlayer, to run on BT Vision. The deployment taps Pushbutton's Microsoft Mediaroom expertise on which BT Vision's BBC iPlayer is based.

Marc Watson, chief executive of television and online services, BT Retail, said: "We are really excited to be partnering with the BBC to bring the BBC iPlayer service to BT Vision customers. The launch of BBC iPlayer on BT Vision adds to the vast range of quality entertainment already available to our customers."

This will be the full BBC iPlayer package, offering almost all of the TV and radio programmes available online through a simple and intuitive BBC iPlayer-branded application, eventually replacing the BBC content on BT Vision's existing 50-hour "TV Replay" package, which offers a small selection of BBC TV programmes.

Pushbutton Managing Director, Paula Byrne, said "BBC iPlayer for BT Vision is the single most prestigious third party deployment of a Microsoft Mediaroom application anywhere in the world, and Pushbutton is immensely proud of the application we have created. It is both powerful and elegant, and provides a glimpse of the IP-powered television of the future."

Daniel Danker, BBC General Manager for Programmes and On Demand, said: "Licence-fee payers love the option of enjoying BBC iPlayer's high-quality experience and vast choice of programmes on the living-room TV, and we're delighted to be able to bring the service to BT Vision."

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