Today Lifehacker met with Arul Baskaran, the ABC’s controller for multiplatform, and quizzed him on future plans for iView, based on the questions everyone submitted earlier in the week. It’s great that there’s now an iView iPad app, but what developments can we expect next?
Among the issues Baskaran discusses in our video interview:
- Which platforms the ABC will move iView to next
- Plans for offering HD content on iView
- Will there be an HTML5 version of iView?
- Will non-ABC developers ever get access to the iView API?
- Why there won’t be download options on iView for the foreseeable future
- Will the PS3 iView client be improved in 2011?
Michael
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 2:22 PMStop saying “ya know” when interviewing! :P
4 “ya know”s in 4 seconds between 0:17 and 0:21!
Ben Garreros
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 3:43 PMCould you mention the answers as well as the questions, life’s too short for boring videos :)
David A
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 4:16 PMBoxee wasn’t mentioned, despite this being flagged by readers as an are of significant interest – pity. This is worthy of follow up.
Angus Kidman
Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 11:19 AMTime limitations, alas. That said, it’s pretty evident given that Boxee wasn’t mentioned as a focal platform that it’s not likely to happen for a while, if ever.
Swil
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 5:46 PMThanks for the interview, Angus. I really want a better PS3 experience, but I know that won’t happen until Sony finally open up the PlayStation Store properly to third party developers so they can build native apps.
But in the short term, Sony could make things a lot better quite easily by taking a different page out of Apple’s book: use the system’s media player for web video.
How much better would iView and YouTube and Vimeo and countless other video based sites be if, on playing a video, you jumped out of the browser and in to the PS3′s marvellous video player, like happens on an iOS device?
No more crappy Flash UI to deal with, and I’m betting the video quality would be far better too.
Mad Hatter
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 5:48 PMThey haven’t bothered with Windows Media Center because we can just open a browser and use a mouse? That totally defeats the purpose of Windows Media Center!
FreaqyGeeq
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 10:23 PMI know! My ears pricked up when I heard “Windows Media Center”, and then… BOOM! Aaaaarrrrghhh, gutted.