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I saw this article last week on the Times Online website,<\/p>\n

Microsoft challenges BBC\u2019s iPlayer with its new MSN Video Player<\/a><\/p>\n

The recently launched UK MSN Video Player<\/a> will show full series of various popular shows (there is even some old Doctor Who stuff on there!) <\/p>\n

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This is all powered by Silverlight of course \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

On the face of it this looked really interesting. The picture quality was decent and a reasonable selection of programming (they\u2019ll need to keep updating it to prevent it becoming stale though)<\/p>\n

However, my excitement once again turned to disappointment<\/p>\n

As always seems to be the case with anything new and shiny at the moment there is a distinct lack of subtitles. If you\u2019re a regular reader you\u2019ll know how many times I\u2019ve come up against \u201cDigital Discrimination\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

The iPlayer is able to display subtitles and does for most programs (not all though)<\/p>\n

At the top of the page is a feedback link so I dropped my comments into there. It would be nice if this was sorted sometime soon but based on my experiences with the Xbox and it\u2019s Zune Marketplace service I\u2019m not holding my breath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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