Hi, I’m Senior Product Manager for BBC iPlayer on TV.

As of today, BBC iPlayer is available on the Xbox One console. As announced, we have been working closely with Microsoft to bring our new version of iPlayer to this device and I am very excited for Xbox One users to get access to BBC iPlayer.

As Marcus Parnwell blogged in August, we have a standard HTML 5 based application that we are looking to roll-out across all platforms. Whilst we have had to make some device specific customisations (more on that below), we have been able to provide the same experience for Xbox One users as all other users of this new version of BBC iPlayer. This has a number of benefits:

- The look and feel is the same, so our users have a similar experience as other TVs, YouView, TV streamers (like Now TV) and on Blu-ray players.

- The ongoing maintenance is more streamlined and easier to manage.

- We can bring new features and channels (like BBC Radio 1) to the platform in an easier way.

Voice control

Users who saw iPlayer running on the Xbox 360 and who use Kinect will know that we made use of voice and gesture in that version.