@Chris iverson

WTF has the iPlayer (surely copyright infringement Steve?) on the Mac and Linux got to do with Cubase?!

It's about time BBC! It makes sense to use a framework like Air, although it is a shame there isn't an open source equivalent. Still, it could be worse, it could be silverlight. What more important is that the BBC have actively discriminated against license payers. they should never have released a Windows only version of anything. Channel 4 and Five can do what they want, I don't directly fund them (OK, I sort of do, they get a token amount from TV Licensing) in the way that I fund the Beeb.