What ever happened to the BBC iMP project?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6194929.stm
Now that BBC Worldwide has got into bed with Azureus peer-to-peer for
the US, what's happening over here for iMP?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/imp

For instance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/bbc.co.uk/imp_3.shtml
states - "The BBC is in the final testing stage of the application and
the full public launch should be later in 2006."

Anyone know the full picture and whether there will be one?
:-)

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In article , lid says...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6194929.stm
Now that BBC Worldwide has got into bed with Azureus peer-to-peer for
the US, what's happening over here for iMP?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/imp

For instance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/bbc.co.uk/imp_3.shtml
states - "The BBC is in the final testing stage of the application and
the full public launch should be later in 2006."

Anyone know the full picture and whether there will be one?
:-)

Maybe they've realised that regular bittorrents make their DRM-filled system a
complete and utter waste of time?
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Anyone know the full picture and whether there will be one?

It is still being tested by a small group of insiders - then early next year
there will be a larger scale trial

Then it will have to go through the public value testing process before
going public (or being canned)

DMac wrote:
Anyone know the full picture and whether there will be one?

It is still being tested by a small group of insiders - then early next year
there will be a larger scale trial

Then it will have to go through the public value testing process before
going public (or being canned)

Oh $deity preserve us from the public value testing process. Its a
wonder they can still financially justify making television programs at
all! (reminds me of a company I used to work for that put an R&D
department through their value testing process and decided the best
value was knock it down and build houses instead)

Ben wrote:
Oh $deity preserve us from the public value testing process. Its a
wonder they can still financially justify making television programs at
all! (reminds me of a company I used to work for that put an R&D
department through their value testing process and decided the best
value was knock it down and build houses instead)

Somewhere around Wembley?

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Adrian C

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:20:40 +0000, Ben wrote:

Oh $deity preserve us from the public value testing process. Its a
wonder they can still financially justify making television programs at
all! (reminds me of a company I used to work for that put an R&D
department through their value testing process and decided the best
value was knock it down and build houses instead)

I think they have decided that. They've sold off or are about to sell off
most things that can be sold that involve people. Now they are about to
start on the property.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:55:51 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:

Oh $deity preserve us from the public value testing process. Its a
wonder they can still financially justify making television programs at
all! (reminds me of a company I used to work for that put an R&D
department through their value testing process and decided the best
value was knock it down and build houses instead)

I think they have decided that. They've sold off or are about to sell off
most things that can be sold that involve people. Now they are about to
start on the property.

Probably makes perfect sense to an accountant. People are expensive;
property needs to be looked after; so get rid of both and you can make
money simply by shuffling money, leaving other people to deal with the
real stuff.

Trouble is, if *everybody* does that, there's nobody left to deal with
the real stuff, so what do you do then?

Rod.

"Adrian C" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6194929.stm
Now that BBC Worldwide has got into bed with Azureus peer-to-peer for the
US, what's happening over here for iMP?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/imp

For instance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/bbc.co.uk/imp_3.shtml
states - "The BBC is in the final testing stage of the application and the
full public launch should be later in 2006."

Anyone know the full picture and whether there will be one?
:-)

Check this link for full details of an announced made couple of days ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6194929.stm
BBC moves to file-sharing sites

Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a
file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced.