BBC licence fee could be means tested everyone pays regardless of whether or not they own a telev

PiKe said:
BBC basically forcing people to pay money because their programming isn't worth people voluntarily paying for it.

Great.
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Eh?

You really don't get it do you?

I'm flabbergasted at the lack of how TV works in this thread.
 
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lovelyhead said:
It is the future. You might have noticed kids are no longer all that glued to the TV. They have a new pastime and it doesn't involve the BBC.
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lovelyhead said:
It is the future. You might have noticed kids are no longer all that glued to the TV. They have a new pastime and it doesn't involve the BBC.
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I completely agree with this. My 8 year old still watches a few cartoons and my 11 year old occasionally watches a couple fo programmes. But apart from that our TV can go for days without them turning it on. They are glued to their ipads for entertainment (in fact too much... we have to limit their use) and even commented once that TV was "old fashioned".

Come to think of it the only BBC programme they ever watch is the news when I have it on.

Traditional TV is doomed.
 
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lovelyhead said:
Two words. Mobile Phones. Every kid in the UK (more or less) has one. Maybe some old biddies don't but just like the BBC, they are not long for this world.
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Can the mobile network cope with even just say 5% of the population steaming video at the same time?

Last I checked most of the mobile networks (even the most modern and latest hardware) in use often struggled to cope with simple voice and text message demand if too many people used it at oncc.

And there are probably far more black spots for decent mobile reception than for TV reception and will be for a long time (large parts of the country still don't have 4g, or suffer from too many users in the reception area for certain cells even under just 3g conditions).
Again, I live in a fairly large town, my phone reception in my house (and most houses in the street) is terrible, and the same is true with the phones my family use (a mix of providers and phones that include samsung, apple, nokia and I can't remember the other).
One of my friends lives in an area where to get a signal you practically have to stand on a kitchen chair at times, and he's living in a reasonable sized town.

Broadcast TV is going to be around for what looks to be a very long time because of the ease of use, the reliability, the coverage, and the cost of running it.
 
Werewolf said:
Can the mobile network cope with even just say 5% of the population steaming video at the same time?

Last I checked most of the mobile networks (even the most modern and latest hardware) in use often struggled to cope with simple voice and text message demand if too many people used it at oncc.

And there are probably far more black spots for decent mobile reception than for TV reception and will be for a long time (large parts of the country still don't have 4g, or suffer from too many users in the reception area for certain cells even under just 3g conditions).
Again, I live in a fairly large town, my phone reception in my house (and most houses in the street) is terrible, and the same is true with the phones my family use (a mix of providers and phones that include samsung, apple, nokia and I can't remember the other).
One of my friends lives in an area where to get a signal you practically have to stand on a kitchen chair at times, and he's living in a reasonable sized town.

Broadcast TV is going to be around for what looks to be a very long time because of the ease of use, the reliability, the coverage, and the cost of running it.
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And the cost of data...
 
easyrider said:
Eh?

You really don't get it do you?

I'm flabbergasted at the lack of how TV works in this thread.
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The basic principle is, you want to watch something, pay for it, make the BBC a subscription model and be done with it, it works for Sky.

I do not and never intend to any BBC produced content, I use my TV for gaming and DVD's, if I'm forced to pay a TV tax for simply owning one, well that's just a steaming load...
 
PiKe said:
The basic principle is, you want to watch something, pay for it, make the BBC a subscription model and be done with it, it works for Sky.

I do not and never intend to any BBC produced content, I use my TV for gaming and DVD's, if I'm forced to pay a TV tax for simply owning one, well that's just a steaming load...
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DVD s

What are they ?


As said it's not all about you.
 
Why should I subsidise your TV viewing habits? I don't ask you to pay towards the fuel for my car.

Make the BBC subscription based, end of.
 
PiKe said:
BBC basically forcing people to pay money because their programming isn't worth people voluntarily paying for it.

Great.
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The BBC outsources contracts to several companies to post *shill* posts on forums to try to counteract the negative press they get from basically blackmailing the public over the license fee and the sex abuse cases.

Go and look at the Digital Spy forum, they're all over it 24/7! It can get quite funny when they forget which account they're logged into and respond to a post using the wrong login. :D
 
Strife212 said:
Why does anything about the BBC attract mental freemen of the land conspiracy theories like nothing else?
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Stop bashing the freeman movement, they are the ones standing up for YOUR rights. Secondly they are not conspiracy theorists so don't get them mixed up with the likes of David Icke and Alex Jones. Lastly, wouldn't you consider what you call "normal people" who bend over and take it up the ******* by government and corporations, to be the mental ones?
 
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They were going to bring in the same in Ireland under the new title of a "Broadcast Charge." Unfortunately they also decided to set up a new utility company to charge for water which almost lead to riots on the streets so that have since "indefinitely" shelved the broadcast charge!
 
I hadn't paid my licence for 8 months at my new place. Got a final warning letter stating there would be a large fine if it went into investigation. I've got Sky (£100 a month with fibre!!!!! STUPID) which is going at the end of November thank god. But still, I had no grounds to prove I didn't watch TV. So decided to finally pay. The moment I get rid of Sky. I will never pay a penny for TV licensing. I'll download all my content. Or via something like Amazon's little dongle. The BBC can go shove it.

I was watching a program on Discovery the other day. 17 minutes of Adverts... Why I'm paying for that, I don't know.
 
agnes said:
I hadn't paid my licence for 8 months at my new place. Got a final warning letter stating there would be a large fine if it went into investigation. I've got Sky (£100 a month with fibre!!!!! STUPID) which is going at the end of November thank god. But still, I had no grounds to prove I didn't watch TV. So decided to finally pay. The moment I get rid of Sky. I will never pay a penny for TV licensing. I'll download all my content. Or via something like Amazon's little dongle. The BBC can go shove it.

I was watching a program on Discovery the other day. 17 minutes of Adverts... Why I'm paying for that, I don't know.
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Adverts?

And you knock the BBC?

This thread is comedy gold!

I didn't realise people were that stupid to pay 100 quid a month on TV


Genuine. Hahahahahahahahahahahahah
 
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