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Netflix has a different catalogue for each country they serve.
I recently learned this first hand. Even more confusingly, your account is not attached to your country of payment but instead done by geoip, so travelling will mean you likely can't continue to watch the same series. This is a major ballache. Even netflix support don't realise this.
Brit here wondering how this shift within the industry will affect the BBC. We own a screen, Netflix subscription and Chromecast, and do not pay for a TV License. While this setup is not even remotely commonplace yet, it could be a real threat over the next decade, especially as iPlayer usage is free without owning a License. I would like to see the TV License flipped on its head: you pay a subscription that gets you…
I thought you had to pay the tax for any screen, regardless of where the content comes from?
Meaning that anything that is live, or recorded from a live signal, requires a TV licence - whether or not it came from an over-the-air signal or via an IP service.
But if you consume a catch-up TV service, or watch DVDs, or use Netflix... then you do not need a TV licence.
Aside from the person I know who works at the BBC, no-one I know now has a TV licence, just as no-one I know has a land-line telephone. Modern technology (smart TVs and smart DVD players mostly) have obliterated old style viewing.
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I'm not sure that that's really the issue. The music industry has solved all those problems long ago - I can buy a lossless version of practically any album, free of DRM and knowing that those files will be mine and forever playable. Here in europe, and I'm assuming the US as well, there's no way to buy and own a movie or TV show in a similar way. It's either DRM or physical media, usually accompanied by long delays…
I haven't found lossless music to be easy to come by legally, am I missing some large site? Amazon for instance only sells MP3s.
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And yet, you can get around those restrictions quite easily.
Or you can torrent it quite easily and don't pay a dime. The point is : if I have to do illegal stuff (getting around geoip is against TOS) and start installing software, search on the internet for a tutorial to learn how to watch my stuff, I might as well look for "House of cards torrent", it's faster and cheaper. I can pirate any music I want, yet I pay Apple Music $10/month to get it because it's easy, the UI is n…
In Australia, all the streaming providers have the problems of not being able to show all content. There is stuff in Australia that we can't watch at all. Bypassing Geoblocks makes me a citizen of the entire world, which I gladly pay for.
While I think it's pretty f *ing obvious that traditional TV channels are going to be in a lot of trouble in the years to come, I couldn't verify his statement that "Netflix now produces 3 of the top 5 rated video series according to Rotten Tomatoes". I did find the exact list he posted under "Top TV Comedies" http://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/tv-list-2/# Also, on their "Top 10 TV Shows 2015", I only see two Netfl…
Unless I'm missing something, your link does match his list, but it's labeled "Top TV Shows on RT", not comedy. Most of those shows are definitely not comedy.
The big issue here is the service providers like Comcast will be relegated to becoming purely pipe providers as they are supposed to be. They are getting hit from both ends by Google and Netflix.
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The BBC's big threat just now is probably not the Internet, but the current Government. It's already lost £.75bn of its budget, and some conservatives would like to ban the BBC from producing popular content.
I really don't know how to parse that last sentence. What is the logic (or lack thereof) there? I don't keep up with what the BBC gets done to it by the UK government.
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The BBC's big threat just now is probably not the Internet, but the current Government. It's already lost £.75bn of its budget, and some conservatives would like to ban the BBC from producing popular content.
I really don't know how to parse that last sentence. What is the logic (or lack thereof) there? I don't keep up with what the BBC gets done to it by the UK government.
Don't know if the catalogue is the same here in the UK than in the US, but in the UK Netflix is only good for TV shows. The movie offering is very light. The other thing is the lack of offline viewing, which is useful when travelling. The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet.
>The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet. Part of the problem is the broken status of international copyright law and the many incompatible local laws and regulations. If the international community could at least settle for an standard approach to digital distribution over the internet, the world would be a happier place for con…
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The BBC's big threat just now is probably not the Internet, but the current Government. It's already lost £.75bn of its budget, and some conservatives would like to ban the BBC from producing popular content.
I really don't know how to parse that last sentence. What is the logic (or lack thereof) there? I don't keep up with what the BBC gets done to it by the UK government.
Same goes for our national health service, which is currently being gutted for the same reasons.