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BBC iPlayer adds Live Restart and Live Pause

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Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

The BBC iPlayer has been given a spit and polish, and now comes with new Live Pause and Live Restart features. They’ll be familiar to anyone who owns a PVR – Live Restart lets you pop back to the beginning of a programme that’s currently airing, while Live Pause pauses the action.

The BBC Internet Blog points out that, unlike a conventional PVR, the iPlayer’s Live Restart function doesn’t require you to previously have been watching or recording the programme in order to restart it from the beginning. That’s good news for those of us who aren’t organised enough to plan their evening’s viewing.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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