It’s progress of a sort, but it’s no use to those us who live outside the UK.
The BBC is going to start selling downloads of shows through the UK iTunes store. Which means that if you forgot to watch a show, and you forgot to record it, and you couldn’t be bothered to watch it for free on the iPlayer during the following 7 days, you can pay a rather steep £1.89 per episode to download and watch it on your iPod or through Apple TV whenever you want.
Meanwhile, those of us who don’t live in the UK, and therefore couldn’t watch these shows on TV (and can’t record them), and who cannot access the iPlayer, will now also not be able to download the shows.
That’s because BBC shows are only available from the UK iTunes store, and anyway there is no iTunes store in Hong Kong.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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