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Just over 10 days ago we brought you news of the BBC’s intention to open a large (very large, really) archive of audio and video of past and present productions, though at the time the project was still said to be in an experimentation phase; only several thousand were reported to be testing the service for quality and general viability. Now (yesterday, to be accurate) the company has officially given the project, dubbed iPlayer, the green light.
Some figures in [...]

One million hours of television and radio programming provided on-demand via the Web. That?s the BBC?s plan. The media colossus intends for an archive which will include many of its new and old recordings to be opened to the public if a trial to selected 20,000 UK-based individuals proves successful.
?Successful? can mean a lot of things, of course, but we presume they?re looking to see if such a catalogue is something even desired by the population (the trial is similar [...]