BBC I-player

If at first a company doesn't succeed...well apparently the gaming community will take matters into their own hands.

You may have heard recently that BBC's I-player both will be exclusively on the Nintendo Wii, after talks with Microsoft and Sony broke down due to both companies wanting to control the design and nature of the player too much for the Beeb's liking. Well this clearly didn't go down with one fan, however, instead of writing an angry letter to the BBC he simply wrote a new code for the player making it fully usable by the PS3's web-browser.

"It's mainly a demonstration of how easily the BBC could support the PS3 with their Wii version," the creator says.

"This does nothing more than mask your PS3's user-agent string and makes half a dozen changes to make the JavaScript and CSS function correctly on the PS3".

Now the only downside of this user created mod so to speak is that you need to use the Web browser instead of a dedicated application, however this is a very small compromise for anyone wanting to use the program on their ps3.

Any ps3 owners may want to save the following link in their Bookmarks folder now, I know I will - http://www.ps3iplayer.com.

Source: CVG