Kangaroo gets thrown on the Barbie

There's no need to worry about blowing your bandwidth restriction on Project Kangaroo, the new joint IPTV venture between the Beeb, ITV and Channel 4.Today, the Competition Commission(CC) has blocked the new service citing threats to the video on demand(VoD) market.Peter Freeman, CC Chairman and Chairman of the inquiry group, said: "After detailed and careful consideration, we have decided that this joint venture would be too much of a threat to competition in this developing market and has to be stopped.""The case is essentially about the control of UK-originated TV content. VOD is an exciting and fast-moving development in TV, which makes programmes previously broadcast available to viewers at a time of their choice. The evidence we saw showed that UK viewers particularly value programmes produced and originally shown in the UK and do not regard other content as a good substitute."