The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general Mark Thompson. Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting responding ...

The BBC’s iPlayer streaming service is to end downloads for users who watch on desktop or laptop computers. Currently viewers on PCs and Macs can save programmes via the iPlayer Downloads app, but ...

A non-BBC program enabling Mac users to download shows from the iPlayer has appeared on the internet. A developer named wizard_drongo posted the program, which saves shows in the Apple QuickTime video ...

The BBC has made a new cross-platform version of its iPlayer download manager available in beta. The Adobe AIR-based application, which has been renamed iPlayer Desktop, will run on Windows PCs, Macs ...

Heck, others have done it already. Is there not the iPlayer Downloader which downloads content streams from iPlayer meant for the iPhone and bypasses the DRM issue altogether, allowing it to then be ...