500 lucky souls at the BBC are getting to trial the BBC’s TV equivalent of their radio player according to this report in The Independent (read it quickly since it may go Premium, or go here instead).
I suspect that the service will only be available to those broadband suppliers listed within the BBC’s Broadband section. The reason? To limit access to programming to UK viewers only. While the Beeb might not mind me watching last night’s Eastenders today, they still sell the show to a few other countries. And keeping the number of people able to access the service limited should also reduce the costs of all that bandwidth.