BBC iPlayer on Mac by end of year

"Can anyone point me to a British proxy server so that I can view this from the States?"

I hope they offer a subscription service for those that don't pay a UK Licence fee... As a fee payer I feel it would be unfair to give these services to everyone outside the UK for free!

It will also be a good revue earner for the BBC and help them to make more quality programs.

Can anyone point me to a British proxy server so that I can view this from the States?

@Rhywun: Channel 4, ITV...

As an update to this...after releasing this news that it was a streaming-only solution, the Trust board have now informed them that this is simply not good enough and that they must still commit to a downloadable option for both Mac and Linux. That'll teach them for trying to get past with a half-assed attempt.

Flash based is better than nothing. To be honest, I don't mind not being able to download, as I am almost always online to be able to stream. The question is, as with XP users, will we still have to download some bloated piece of software in order to use the service? Or, as the Mac version is flash-based only, can we just access our programs from a web page?

About time, we pay a licence fee to the bbc every year and they must make everything they do available to all. This does baffle me as most of there post production is turning to macs now.

Yeah, BBC ticked me off when I tried to view some of their Doctor Who content and was rudely awakened to their Windows-only policy. Guys, it's not that difficult. In fact, the Windows-only situation is very, very rare. Off the top of my head I can't think of any other site that's Windows only. Except maybe some of the news sites like CNN but that could be a symptom of AdBlock, I'm not sure.

I BELIEVE that you canuse safari's  option A thing to grab a streaming vid...

But maybe not. You can on youtube and most of those, but not on NBC's player....... or maybe it will be a swf file THEN you would need a decoder program...

Ug its not worth it who cares good day sir.

It's not that tough to download a streaming flash video. Firefox add-ons can do it, quicktime pro will do it, and there are even widgets that do it. The quality might not be as good, but if you absolutely have to download it, there you go.