{"id":629,"date":"2009-07-31T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=629"},"modified":"2009-07-31T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T07:03:38","slug":"microsoft-to-launch-online-tv-service-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to launch online TV service in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Microsoft is to launch an online TV player in the UK next week, initially featuring 350 hours of BBC and ITV television programmes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ad-supported service, called MSN Video Player, is designed to complement TV channels&#8217; existing online video services by offering older programmes no longer available on the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer or Channel 4&#8217;s 4oD, Microsoft said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Content will include BBC programmes including <em>Hustle<\/em>, <em>The League of Gentlemen<\/em>, <em>Mock the Week<\/em>, <em>Hotel Babylon<\/em>, <em>Dead Ringers<\/em>, <em>That Mitchell and Webb Look<\/em> and <em>Jack Dee Live at the Apollo<\/em>, as well as content from All3Media, the producer of <em>How to Look Good Naked<\/em>, <em>10 Years Younger<\/em>, <em>Peep Show<\/em> and <em>Midsomer Murders<\/em>, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/software\/0,1000000121,39700492,00.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/software\/0,1000000121,39700492,00.htm\">http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/software\/0,1000000121,39700492,00.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is to launch an online TV player in the UK next week, initially featuring 350 hours of BBC and ITV television programmes. The ad-supported service, called MSN Video Player, is designed to complement TV channels&#8217; existing online video services by offering older programmes no longer available on the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer or Channel 4&#8217;s 4oD, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}