BBC planning to bring Internet video to TVs in the UK
The BBC has been given the green light to work on a set top box that will deliver Internet content directly to the TV.
According to The Daily Telegraph, the BBC Trust, the body that oversees all of the activities of the British Broadcasting Company, has given the green light to the continued development of an Internet enable set top television box. This new box would sell for about £200 ($321 USD) and allow users to access Web sites such as the BBC’s own iPlayer service.
Thus far the BBC has spent approximately £1 million $(1,605,458 USD) of a £6 million ($9,632,749 USD) five-year budget to develop the service.
This current permission goes not guarantee that the project will be finished, and is merely approval to continue development to see if it is truly viable.
Satellite broadcaster Sky has been very vocal in its opposition to this project saying that it would give the BBC an unfair advantage, and this is not how the television fee UK residents pay to maintain the company should be spent.
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