BBC Planning iPlayer Set-Top Box

But who is going to pay for all the bandwidth??

Case in point: surfing around iPlayer last night and I noticed they had a stream for Jay-Z at Glastonbury. The HQ Download version was 1.2GB! While that might not sound like much to people who torrent US TV each week, in reality you are only a relative minority. If Joe Public Sun reader starts downloading / streaming IPTV as if it was no different from Sky, then ISPs everywhere will melt!

If those rubbish ISPs melt, then it's their own fault. There are plenty of ISPs who give a decent service at a good price. If anything, services like the BBCs iPlayer force ISP's to admit their services are not as good as they claimed them to be.