I’ve just been sat here encoding some video to flash, and happened across a post by Peter Ent talking about how the BBC had chosen Flash for the basis of it’s iPlayer software (their online catch-up TV service).

So why is this significant? Well, think Silverlight. Microsoft have been pushing Silverlight as hard as they can for Video - so one would think that Silverlight would be ideal for the BBC’s iPlayer content - but No, the BBC have decided to go for flash - which is quite a significant win.

Now we just need them to get rid of all the RealPlayer based news content they pump out.