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2007-08-01 08:02:49
By Steve Herrmann
BBC News Interactive editor
If you are looking at the BBC News website from outside the UK there are some
new developments to tell you about.
We are upgrading the technical quality of the video on the site for users
overseas so that anyone anywhere in the world with a high speed internet
connection can watch the BBC's news reports in broadband quality.
Until now this has only been possible for users in the UK - server costs have
restricted us from providing the same level of service internationally.
We did not want the BBC's UK licence fee payers meeting this cost and in effect
subsidising the service for people outside the UK.
Now, with the help of our partners in BBC World, the BBC's commercially funded
international TV news channel, we are making our broadband video news service
available internationally.
BBC World is funded by advertising and subscription revenue and the cost of the
improved video service will be met by advertising around the broadband news
clips.
So if you are viewing video from outside the UK you may see a short commercial
before your clip plays.
If you want to watch clips ad-free, you can still choose to keep the same
narrowband video service we have offered you internationally up to now.
If you click on a video link and you are outside the UK you will see a 'media
selector' pop-up window with boxes allowing you to choose Windows or Real
media, high quality (broadband) or standard quality (narrowband).
You can use the preferences link on the News Player to change your choices at
any time.
If you have chosen broadband video, the News Player will launch and your clip
will play, sometimes with a short commercial before it.
For the first time on the website we will also provide a regularly updated
video summary of international news from our colleagues in the newsroom of BBC
World television.
There is a link to the summary on the front page of the international edition
of the website.
A decade ago watching video online was the preserve of a small, dedicated and
patient group of internet pioneers. Today millions use the web daily to watch
and listen to all kinds of audio and video content.
Traffic to audio and video on this website has continued to grow as more people
switch to broadband.
We want to make sure we can continue to provide all our users around the world
with top quality video news, and making these changes will allow us to do that.
We hope that if you are outside the UK you will appreciate the improved quality
of our news video.
Give it a try and if you do have comments or questions, we would like to hear
them.