AnotherDaveB writes "As part of 'Beeb Week', The book discusses the 'multi-million pound failure' that is the iPlayer. 'When the iPlayer was commissioned in 2003, it was just one baffling part of an ambitious £130m effort to digitise the Corporation's broadcasting and archive infrastructure. It's an often lamented fact that the BBC wiped hundreds of 1960s episodes of its era-defining music show Top of the Pops, including early Beatles performances, and many other popular programmes ... The iPlayer was envisaged as the flagship the net* 'delivery platform'. It would dole out this national treasure to us in a illegal drug manner, it was promised, and fire a revolution in how Big TV works online. For better or worse it's finally set to be delivered with accompanying business blitz this Christmas - more than four years after it was first announced.'"

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