In England, Microsoft launched an interesting experiment to compete squarely with the BBC. This is a significant change in the MSN Video Player, changing the format and including more than 1,000 hours of television programming.

Unlike the BBC iPlayer, the service promises to display content the same day they are issued and without paying a penny. The islanders who want to see a series of TV advertising will be only a first noninvasive 30 seconds.

According to the director of Microsoft in the UK, Ashleu Highfield, the system takes more than six months to test everything went well. Like any project of the Redmond company, use Silverlight to play the content, so technology that seeks to promote the company.

The trouble is that, as in many such services, is that content is filtered geographically and can only be seen in the UK. What one can see from anywhere are the movie trailers, some of them in HD.