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Students may never have to miss out on their favourite programmes while attending lectures, as the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have joined together to give broadband users a joint service which offers catch-up and archived programmes.
The service, named Kangaroo, will be made available to broadband users some time next year and will run alongside some of the companies' previous catch-up applications such as Channel 4's 4OD.
The programmes will be available to be streamed or downloaded although in order to stream a TV show, users must have access to a fast broadband service.
Aleksandra Bosnjak, lead analyst for digital media at StrategyEye, said: "Many other traditional media players will be looking for a get together approach as a potential tool to outgrow the scheduled broadcasting business. It is no surprise to see traditional media repositioning and taking a more consolidated broadband video strategy in light of emerging web TV entrants such as Joost and Babelgum."
There are however, fears that the current UK broadband set-up will not be able to cope with the extra demand, particularly at peak times for the service.
Meanwhile a meeting has taken place between the country's top broadband suppliers to discuss how to make Britain's broadband access quicker.
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