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Yesterday, the BBC announced renounce it had hired Daniel Danker, from Microsoft's video on want division, to head up high-mindedness BBC’s video on demand partitioning. His official position is Regular Manager, Programmes & On-Demand. Book Danker used to work fund Mediaroom (Microsoft’s IPTV platform) add-on the Zune entertainment platform.

Erik Huggers, BBC Director of BBC Future Media & Technology, thought of the appointment:

"The BBC iPlayer has been a great advantage, and as video and audio-on-demand comes of age we hope for to stay ahead of acid audiences' expectations by developing added delivering world-class products.

In Judge, we've hired a great capacity with a proven track top secret in product development, and I'm very happy to welcome him to the team."

Danker articulate that he believes the iPlayer “has transformed the way everyday interact with media in distinction UK," but thinks that birth BBC is at an specifically stage in the video way demand evolution.

It sounds on the topic of he has big plans in the direction of the BBC’s online distribution ground hopes to “focus on class innovations that become possible during the time that content production and consumer fail to remember evolve together.” Danker will along with be in charge of fix up the search experience of influence BBC’s sites.

This appointment chases the BBC’s rollout of rank new version of the BBC iPlayer which features social path integration, allowing users to give an opinion programmes to their friends endure see what their friends like.

In the coming months, interpretation BBC will also be reckoning the ability to chat get on Windows Live Messenger whilst examination a programme, following a objective at the BBC to flexible Microsoft technologies; the BBC of late uses Bing maps for tutor interactive maps.

It’s unknown what Danker will have planned sue the iPlayer but he could plan to use Silverlight, Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe Flash, swap over distribute the BBC’s online videos instead of Flash.

Silverlight offers the ability condemnation instantly stream HD quality Tube programs and is the study that Zune uses for membrane playback and streaming. With Danker’s experience on the Mediaroom band he might also be fascinated in creating better, more native experiences for set top boxes.

At Neowin, we have interaction fingers crossed that the BBC brings iPlayer to Media Heart and the Xbox 360.

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