STV Player
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| Developer(s) | STV Group plc |
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| Initial release | July 2009 |
| Operating system | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Platform | Online, PS3, YouView, Windows Phone 8 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Television catch-up, archive, live broadcast |
| Website | www.stv.tv/player |
The STV Player is an online video on demand service accessible through the main STV website as well as being available on a variety of smartphones, tablets, consoles, set top boxes and Smart TVs. Current programmes are available for 30 days after transmission on the main STV channel, with archive programming available longer-term. The service was established to hold full programming and "long-form" content, separate from the existing STV Video site, which would then be rebuilt to hold "short-form" content, news, weather and clips.
Most STV primetime, and some daytime, shows are available on the website; however, some sports, movies, imported programming and network programmes with copyright issues are not.
The STV Player is known for having humorous puns on it's homepage and playful episode descriptions.
The STV Player is intended to combine network programming shown by STV, such as Emmerdale, Coronation Street and The Jeremy Kyle Show, plus regional programming, such as Made in Scotland, Scotland Tonight and STV Rugby, and archive STV programming, like The Steamie and High Times, in a separate site from other, "short-form" videos.
In general, programmes are available in their entirety, but in some cases, STV does not have the right to broadcast all the content online; in these instances, the segments of the show which are not subject to these rights issues are loaded onto STV Player, with the un-cleared segments excluded.
Since its launch in July 2009, the STV Player has been heavily marketed on STV.
In 2010, an independent usability study of Video on Demand websites described STV's online catch-up service, STV Player, as the best in the UK, outside the heavily resourced BBC iPlayer.
The research measured the usability of six VoD websites provided by the major UK broadcasting companies: STV Player, BBC iPlayer, Demand 5, All 4, ITV Hub and Sky Go.
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