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Maybe if they didn't send letters masking as police enforcement trying to bully you into paying for tv license you don't need, people would be more welcoming towards using their product.
[0] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-about-tv-licensing-A...
Personally I kind of agree. Other than storage and traffic considerations I cannot see why the entire BBC archive is not available online. It seems stupid to me that we have literally 50+ years of content, documentaries, panel shows, etc. Which could all easily be put online as they are the BBC's content and have been paid for by the British people already. I understand that this might be overkill but I definitely fi…
* Hitch Hiker's Guide.
* All of Blake's 7.
And that's without trying. There's definitely a business there but the BBC just aren't chasing it.
Wait what? The BBC's iPlayer was in this "streaming fight"? I thought it is only available in the UK and not anywhere else unlike the other players such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc. iPlayer doesn't seem nowhere near winning this "fight" against these players IMHO.
The article seems very UK-centric. As citizen of another coutnry living outside UK I would love to try to subscribe to BBC IPlayer. I think I would prefer it over Netflix, if the price was the same / similar.
Wait what? The BBC's iPlayer was in this "streaming fight"? I thought it is only available in the UK and not anywhere else unlike the other players such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc. iPlayer doesn't seem nowhere near winning this "fight" against these players IMHO.
The article seems very UK-centric. As citizen of another coutnry living outside UK I would love to try to subscribe to BBC IPlayer. I think I would prefer it over Netflix, if the price was the same / similar.
Personally I kind of agree. Other than storage and traffic considerations I cannot see why the entire BBC archive is not available online. It seems stupid to me that we have literally 50+ years of content, documentaries, panel shows, etc. Which could all easily be put online as they are the BBC's content and have been paid for by the British people already. I understand that this might be overkill but I definitely fi…
* Every Dr Who, ever. * Hitch Hiker's Guide. * All of Blake's 7. And that's without trying. There's definitely a business there but the BBC just aren't chasing it.
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You need a licence if you use iPlayer; having iPlayer installed on your devices does not mean you require a licence.
You need it if you use it to watch tv. Not for radio.
Personally I kind of agree. Other than storage and traffic considerations I cannot see why the entire BBC archive is not available online. It seems stupid to me that we have literally 50+ years of content, documentaries, panel shows, etc. Which could all easily be put online as they are the BBC's content and have been paid for by the British people already. I understand that this might be overkill but I definitely fi…
* Every Dr Who, ever. * Hitch Hiker's Guide. * All of Blake's 7. And that's without trying. There's definitely a business there but the BBC just aren't chasing it.
I'd love to be able to just buy the digital audio (heck, the videos, I can strip the audio out) on a track by track basis. They never made it available, so I can't vOv
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You need it if you use it to watch tv. Not for radio.
iPlayer is specifically the BBC. You can watch ITV’s or Channel 4’s catch-up (non-live) services legally without having a TV license, unless the rules changed since I left the country.
Personally I kind of agree. Other than storage and traffic considerations I cannot see why the entire BBC archive is not available online. It seems stupid to me that we have literally 50+ years of content, documentaries, panel shows, etc. Which could all easily be put online as they are the BBC's content and have been paid for by the British people already. I understand that this might be overkill but I definitely fi…
* Every Dr Who, ever. * Hitch Hiker's Guide. * All of Blake's 7. And that's without trying. There's definitely a business there but the BBC just aren't chasing it.