BBC iPlayer coming stateside?

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The iPlayer - the expensive but ultimately highly successful attempt to put all BBC programming up on the web as a ad-free VOD service might be coming to the US - albeit with ads this time.

The iPlayer has been only available to those with a British IP address, which is really too bad, because there is a ton of stuff that I would like to watch - and watch the current season of - as opposed to BBC America which really waters down the content for some reason (why do we get 1 year old top-gear? WHY??)

This would be a fantastic move, and another step towards tv/movies over the internet becoming one of my most-watched sources of entertainment.

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