The BBC’s digital boss, Erik Huggers has defended The Corporation’s commitment to Flash player saying that “it currently happens to be the most efficient way to deliver a high quality experience to the broadest possible audience”. At the same time, he stated that HTML 5 is not up there in terms of delivering right quality within the apps favoured by iplayer. Even though Apple have adopted HTML 5 over Flash, it looks like Adobe’s platform is far from dead, and could remain the dominant delivery system for IP-based TV for some time.