The BBC iPlayer is regarded as one of the best catch-up TV services in the world. The reputation is well-deserved. But a similar or at least comparable experience is well within reach of smaller organizations. In a recent usability study of catch-up TV services in the UK, reported in the Telegraph, the quality of Scotland's STV user experience ranked just behind the BBC and ahead of the Sky Player.
 

We're pleased to announce today that leading Scottish broadcaster, STV, has launched a series of new HD-quality, long-form online video initiatives for catch-up viewing purposes using the Brightcove platform. The Brightcove platform's wide range of video publishing and distribution features, including long-form delivery capabilities, enable STV to deliver HD-quality, full episodes of the series.

Our friends at STV have taken full advantage of Brightcove's ability to handle high quality, dare I say, HD video with the new four-parter, Scotland Revealed. I'm a big fan of what STV has done with their video library as a whole and I'm really happy to see the team take full advantage of Brightcove's capabilities. The videos are in 720p and there will be several additional episodes coming over the next two weeks. The videos are available for 90 days, so watch them now. 

Scottish Media Group's STV was one of our first launch partners in Europe. I'm delighted to see them enhance their successful year-old experience with a new "catch-up TV" site. We had the good fortune to work with Alistair Brown, David Low and team last year in building the main site. It was one of the first SEO-focused video experiences we built, driven off of Brightcove Media APIs. That site is different from a "traditional" monolithic Flash player or video ghetto, in which all of the videos play on one page.