I got an email this morning from a Channel 4 PR person who explained that he had seen my original rant about the channel's on demand being total rubbish. Now, I'm not taking credit for anything here, but it seems (from the 1 April) it has sorted itself out, with specific benefits for Mac users. I know the BBC has loads of cash and it has managed to make the iPlayer brilliant - and online catch-up in general services are now so important - but I was worried that Channel 4, with all its excellent content, were missing out on valuable sources of online viewer numbers. Read on for the skinny...

Related: Why is 4oD so rubbish?

Channel 4 is using an Adobe Flash player to deliver the content so both Apple Mac and Linux OS users should be able to use the service. At this stage just the 4oD catch-up streaming service is available, but this is the first step in providing the full service to Mac users and they are working on the archive facility which will be available to Mac users later in the year. The relaunch of the catch-up service is part of an overall relaunch of Channel4.com which has been in development for over a year.

Good work Channel 4!

Here's a video the channel has produced to tell people about the updates, niftily apologising to Mac users.