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Blinkx Remote indexes all legal, freely available TV online and has launched in the UK today. Blinkx Remote results will be derived from the freely available on demand services such as the BBC iPlayer, 4OD, ITV.com and Five. Blinkx Remote will also include shows from other non-UK broadcasters, such as CBS, that are available to UK viewers.

I don’t know if any of you at home have both the BBC iPlayer and 4OD (on demand) but for those they don’t, they are essentially ways of watching the last weeks worth of TV on your PC from the respective channels (ITV doesn’t get a look in because theirs simply isn’t that good).

If like me you miss a lot of TV and make extensive use of the ‘watch again’ services from BBC and Channel 4 you’ll know that watching those shows on your PC monitor / PC desk isn’t ideal. Yeh sure you can attach your TV to your PC and do it that way but that’s not practical for all of us.

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/dantaylor/ At the Marketing Society annual lecture, James Murdoch accused the BBC iPlayer of squashing competition. I completely disagree with this. The iPlayer is dominant, but it is taking a large slice of an inflated pie. Without the iPlayer, the market would be a lot smaller.