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[1] For US folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...
> Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only Yes, well. It's not like the publically financed television stations of EUrope have FUCKING MORAL OBLIGATION to help the free movement of people throughout Europe by making the programs that connect them with their home country and that they paid for available to them. And the BBC is _by far_ not the worst offender here. I mean, even YLE, whic…
Hell, I can see frustration at what could or should be a commercially workable model not being in place but saying that there is some moral obligation based on the EU Freedom of Movement is bullshit and then some.
Seriously I love Europe and I love the EU but the minute TV becomes a moral right I will march on Brussels with a flaming torch myself.
http://time.com/18867/popcorn-time-is-so-good-at-movie-pirac...
I'm hoping this is going to be incorporated into the new iPlayer when watching live, because it seems mad to have this functionality missing depending on which part of the site you're watching live from.
Also, I'm hoping the keyboard controls will be improved. It'd be nice for the spacebar to function as pause/play and the left right arrows to skip in much smaller increments so they're actually useful.
The skipping increment being too large also affects my Humax HDR-1000S, where you can only jump in 1 minute blocks, which is far too big to be useful when seeking to the start of something. 10 seconds would be far better.
edit: The site's just offered me a go on the trial and it looks like most of the things I wanted have actually been implemented. Excellent stuff!
To announce a big new release and announce vaguely that subtitle support for iOS and Android downloads is still "coming soon" is a massive kick in the teeth. At this point they should at least be able to give us an ETA. What is it that makes it harder to support subtitles in downloads rather than streaming? I suppose I can see that with streaming you can serve up subtitled or non-subtitled streams according to user p…
I'm still hoping that the BBC will take my money and let me have the iPlayer in the US. My wife is British, and would absolutely love to be able to watch all the BBC content. Let me pay a TV license fee [1], or whatever. Just take my money. [1] For US folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...
Some of the issues were touched on by QI creator John Lloyd, when they were trying to get QI licensed for the US(only source I found was dead link referenced by wiki). There are so many differences in licensing around the movie clips and songs used in episodes between countries that what the Beeb can play under fair use in the UK would be prohibitively expensive elsewhere.
> Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only Yes, well. It's not like the publically financed television stations of EUrope have FUCKING MORAL OBLIGATION to help the free movement of people throughout Europe by making the programs that connect them with their home country and that they paid for available to them. And the BBC is _by far_ not the worst offender here. I mean, even YLE, whic…
You're seriously asserting TV as a moral right? Hell, I can see frustration at what could or should be a commercially workable model not being in place but saying that there is some moral obligation based on the EU Freedom of Movement is bullshit and then some. Seriously I love Europe and I love the EU but the minute TV becomes a moral right I will march on Brussels with a flaming torch myself.
If you say there is no moral obligation, then what is the reason for the BBC or ARD or YLE or TVE or RAI to even exist?
Publically financed broadcasting is based on the idea that the people should have some sort of neutral-ish source of information. If you strip away all the stuff that has been put on top (football rights, TV dramas and the like), it comes back to that. On a side note, it is actually a discussion that is taking place over here in Germany, whether or not entertainment is part of the mission of ARD and ZDF.
Now why should there be a magical wall on the border of the island, beyond which the British citizens don't have the right to be informed?
One could argue that it is completely irrelevant whether or not _I_ can watch the BBC, but there is a moral obligation towards the expat Brits.
> Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only Yes, well. It's not like the publically financed television stations of EUrope have FUCKING MORAL OBLIGATION to help the free movement of people throughout Europe by making the programs that connect them with their home country and that they paid for available to them. And the BBC is _by far_ not the worst offender here. I mean, even YLE, whic…
Rights. The BBC probably gets a better price for externally produced programming if they limit their broadcast rights to the UK because the producer can then go sell the program abroad without having to compete with BBC iPlayer. Conversely, for internally produced programming, if it's good, there's revenue to be made from selling that programming abroad. In Denmark, BBC channels are premium channels on cable. Impossi…
That is where transfer payments between the publically fincanced broadcasters come in. Make one big nice platform where every EUropean can watch all the non-third-party content and then distribute part of the public broadcasting revenue to those broadcasters whose content was watched by users in other countries.
I know this is not realistic, but from my point of view it looks as if the only reason we don't have something like this is that the people in the right places just don't care.
The iPlayer is pretty great and has gone from strength to strength. Things for me that I'd like to see (as I can see some of the devs on here) 1. Content - I see no reason why the BBC doesn't put all of it's content on the iPlayer. 2. Timelimit - Abandon the 7 day window time limit, it simply doesn't fit with our modern lives, Netflix has proved that. 3. Ability to log in using my TV Licence as an ID, that way I coul…
To announce a big new release and announce vaguely that subtitle support for iOS and Android downloads is still "coming soon" is a massive kick in the teeth. At this point they should at least be able to give us an ETA. What is it that makes it harder to support subtitles in downloads rather than streaming? I suppose I can see that with streaming you can serve up subtitled or non-subtitled streams according to user p…
Do iOS/Android natively support subtitles on video streams? If so, there's really no excuse for it.