With rumours speculating that the BBC iPlayer was in development for the Xbox 360, the Telegraph is reporting that it is indeed ready to drop. However, due to a dispute between Microsoft and the BBC, it’s been delayed.

The disagreement centers around Microsoft’s insistence that the BBC iPlayer app be distributed as a Gold subscriber benefit (in a similar fashion to Last.fm, Twitter, and Facebook). However, “the BBC cannot charge the British public for access to the iPlayer as it is already included in the licence fee.”

A BBC spokesman said: “BBC iPlayer has been extremely successful on PS3 and we recently re-launched on Nintendo Wii, from which the public response has been fantastic. People clearly want the BBC iPlayer on their gaming consoles, and we don’t think Xbox users are any different, so we’ve had discussions with Microsoft about bringing the service to the platform.”

You can read the article in full, here.