The concept for the BBC iPlayer was dreamt up by Ben Lavender in 2005, a BBC employee frustrated by attempting to BitTorrent See more

'iPlayer 1.0'
Download service
One of the key features of the original iPlayer download service was the use of peer-to-peer See more

PlayStation 3
Soon after the Wii release, several unofficial PlayStation 3 iPlayer proxy sites arose that used See more

The original iPlayer service was launched in October 2005, undergoing a five-month trial by five thousand broadband users until 28 February … See more

Before September 2016, a television licence was not required to stream either BBC television or radio programmes from the iPlayer that had already been broadcast, though … See more

BT Vision
On 27 May 2008, BT began to charge BT Vision customers £3 per month for watching BBC Replay, a cut-down version of the iPlayer … See more

Android devices
On 23 June 2010, after many months of complaints from Android users, BBC iPlayer officially … See more