In reply to a post by RobertoS:

So you are saying all BBC radio and television output should be on a pay-to-consume system?

It's a very odd system. Sky TV customers are forced to fund a rival of Sky's whether or not they want to watch their rival's output. It's a bit like having a £1 entrance fee at the door of Tesco to fund Asda.

I think they are talking about all I player Catch up not just real time

And you don't need a tv licence to watch catch up tv, nor should you do, as it ain't live, if they don't want to provide free to view content then they should encrypt it, they could include a code with the tv licence that licence payers could input on the web site to access content , a bit like sky player you can't watch that if you ain't a sky customer, then they can stop their whining, or the top brass could take a pay cut a trotter out of the trough and reduce the price of the licence fee
or go down the subscription pay per view route

Edited by tommy45 (Fri 24-Jan-14 18:52:46)

I could suggest how to watch all channels including Sky and BT, but I usually get banned for weeks when I do.

I'm not forced to [pay to watch Sky and BBC will be the same. Encryption will not stop folk sharing streams, just as they do for Sky.

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

I think they are talking about all I player Catch up not just real time

correct.

Hence my comment about 'on schedule' tv having its days numbered, 'on demand' is the future, the bbc are working it out hence the panic. But they painting it as people evading the licence fee.

I rarely watch Ch4 or Ch5 but indirectly I am paying for those and subsidising those who do watch it. Again, I have little choice in the matter.

I don't download films, watch football online, or do a lot of YouTube streaming. My broadband subscription subsidises all who do.

I could argue that is unfair. That usage should still be unlimited but charged at a commercial rate per GB, be that 10p per GB, £1 per GB, or whatever.

I don't.

I also watch less than five hours TV per week averaged over the year. I listen to a lot of Radios 3 and 4. I am therefore also subsidising heavy non-Sky TV users and other Radio channel users.

It doesn't bother me. What I get for the money is in my opinion well worth it.

We had a bob before who used to do this,

Why it's almost as though they were one and the same person, couldn't be, could it ?!?!
Shall we ask the OP if internal wiring can have an affect on ADSL services ?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I don't download films, watch football online, or do a lot of YouTube streaming. My broadband subscription subsidises all who do.

I could argue that is unfair. That usage should still be unlimited but charged at a commercial rate per GB, be that 10p per GB, £1 per GB, or whatever.

I don't.

I also watch less than five hours TV per week averaged over the year. I listen to a lot of Radios 3 and 4. I am therefore also subsidising heavy non-Sky TV users and other Radio channel users.

It doesn't bother me. What I get for the money is in my opinion well worth it.

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Correct , even if it includes the cost of every new colourful anorak Chris Packham wears in every edition of nature programes !


.......does he sell them afterwards on Ebouy ?