iPlayer

So it's Wednesday morning, i've been in the office an hour and a half and i'm thinking of what biscuit to nibble on...

Wrong, it's now 9.30 and i've just brewed a lovely cup of coffee having waved goodbye to my wife, dropped our son off at nursery and walked the dogs at 8am not 5.45am! I'm off to the National eLearning debate at Oxford University this afternoon so i will be leaving shortly and am taking it easy this morning. While drinking coffee and replying to emails i've just watched the second episode of 'the classroom experiement' that was on BBC2 last week on the iPlayer .

How can i reply to emails and watch the iPlayer? Actually it was brilliant. I've always loved the iPlayer as you can catch up on content, or media, that you really want to see but didn't know was on until someone talks about it at work the next day. Which i never really understood because i really dislike watching movies on tiny screens like my compute. The reason i like using the iPlayer is simple, it's because the media i watch, i really want to watch. If i would like to watch something on the iPlayer, i never get round to it because the medium to watch the media isn't great.

So today i recalled reading an article about how you can add an iPlayer 'channel' on your Nintendo Wii. It was very straight forward, i turned the Wii on, clicked on the shopping channel, connected to my wifi (the Wii has this built in as standard), browsed the channels and there it was for a cost of zero credits.

All of a sudden i am watching the iPlayer full screen on my TV and the quality of the picture is great. So please spead the word, your kids gamind console isn't just for games, it's for watching TV too. The clever bit here is that the console is accessing the internet with a safe and secure connection, they aren't being attacked by viruses...yet.