Hacker puts BBC's iPlayer on PS3; official version coming "in due course"
by Kyle Orland 
on Apr 16th 2008 5:00AM
Not willing to wait for the BBC to get its act together and release a PS3-compatible version of it's
iPlayer streaming video web site, an enterprising hacker has
pieced together his own version and put it out for the world to share.
PS3iplayer.com works by making the PS3's web browser pretend it's the Wii's Opera browser, tricking the BBC web-site to serve up the
official version designed for Nintendo's system. Compatibility is reportedly a little spotty, but the site does seem to show how easy it would be to port the web site over to the PS3's built-in web browser, despite vague complaints of
Sony's controlling imposition.
For his part, the BBC's head of digital media technology, Anthony Rose, writes in a
blog post that the hack is impressive but not necessarily "the best possible iPlayer proposition for that console." Rose assured readers that his team is looking into creating an official version of the player for the PS3 "in due course." Like when someone on the digital media team gets a free lunch hour, perhaps?
