Je ne suis pas impressionné…

Every since Neighbors started airing on FIve I’ve started watching more and more of the channel.  I find that watching House in the early afternoon really chills me out and in the evenings there is often a good documentary or film showing.  However as I often forget about the channel, I have found myself missing shows and wishing for a Video On Demand service, one not dissimilar to BBC iPlayer or the offerings from Channel 4 and ITV.

As you can imagine, I was overjoyed when I caught a trailer for Five’s ‘Demand Five’ video on demand over IP (or VoDoIP for short - you can quote me on that) services.  With both download and streaming versions of the show I felt fairly sure they’d support Mac - after all the other big players implemented streaming support to facilitate the Mac users.

After rushing to the site, watching a flash trailer for a show and creating a user account the Five website finally tells me that because I’m a Mac users I won’t be able to play.  Geez, way to go.  At least Channel Four told me as soon as I landed on their websites - not after I first invest fifteen minutes of my time an forfeit my privacy.

Demand “Five Demand” for Mac!