BBC iPlayer goes mobile: Which player is best?

Indeed there is: the iPhone and iPod touch. Both offer streaming access to the iPlayer library over Wi-Fi, using the H.264 codec for the best picture quality we tested. And with an aspect ratio of 16:9.

Unless you're after an even larger screen -- which we'll see in a second -- the iPhone and iPod touch are almost certainly the best portable iPlayer devices on the market, and both provide built-in speakers.

Although you're restricted to using iPlayer only over Wi-Fi (content cannot be pre-loaded), you can output any of it to a TV by using one of Apple's docks or cables. For these reasons we award both devices the highly sought-after title of:

Best choice: Mid-sized portable iPlayer players