BBC / ITV To Launch New Streaming Rival

Firestar_3x said:
So the "TV Licence" money they take off me will be ring-fenced and not spent on this new venture i assume?

Can see lots of people being ****** off by this, myself included.
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I can see why BBC think they have to do this, but it's never gonna end well for them
 
Semple said:
I thought the exact same thing when i read that article this morning.

If BBC/ITV want to make a bit of revenue then sell the licenses for their content to the big players Netflix/Amazon for a decent fee.

If someone's already paying £7 for Netflix, £6 for Amazon, £5 for Disney, and then topping it off with £5 for this Britbox on top of paying for a licence fee as well as Sky/Virgin if you don't want/can't get freeview. It can suddenly get very expensive for on-demand services, and will lead to people saying i'm already paying £40 a month for streaming services and i only want to watch one show on XYZ service.
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Didn’t people want an a la carte service like this?
 
Personally I'd prefer a service that was a catch-all for all streaming services with a reduced combined fee.

Think Netflix/Amazon/NowTV etc all combined for £20 a month. I reckon such a service would be snapped up.
 
Mr Jack said:
If they launched a service letting people worldwide watch fresh British content then I'd sign up in a second, but it doesn't look like that is what they're planning.
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Yeah i can never understand why they don't license for worldwide, i think Top Gear earned the BBC quite a bit of revenue from streaming in other countries, seems a bit daft to not tap on that revenue stream.

mrochester said:
Didn’t people want an a la carte service like this?
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Depends on people's viewing choices i guess. We watch a bit of live TV as well as catch-up/on-demand, we've currently got Netflix, Amazon Prime and the misses pays for HayU, on top of that we pay for Virgin Media as we have no aerial in the flat for Freeview, and with that we get suckered in to paying for a TV License. We don't actually watch that much TV of an evening, probably works out to be 5-10 hours of a 7-day week, and some of that will just be background watching.

Don't get me wrong there's some great shows i've watched on Netflix/Prime, but unless you're watching 30+ hours a week, on-demand subscriptions can seem pretty expensive.
 
Semple said:
Yeah i can never understand why they don't license for worldwide, i think Top Gear earned the BBC quite a bit of revenue from streaming in other countries, seems a bit daft to not tap on that revenue stream.



Depends on people's viewing choices i guess. We watch a bit of live TV as well as catch-up/on-demand, we've currently got Netflix, Amazon Prime and the misses pays for HayU, on top of that we pay for Virgin Media as we have no aerial in the flat for Freeview, and with that we get suckered in to paying for a TV License. We don't actually watch that much TV of an evening, probably works out to be 5-10 hours of a 7-day week, and some of that will just be background watching.

Don't get me wrong there's some great shows i've watched on Netflix/Prime, but unless you're watching 30+ hours a week, on-demand subscriptions can seem pretty expensive.
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I watch 0 hours of TV a week so paying anything for TV or content is a huge waste. Saves so much cash too!
 
mrochester said:
I watch 0 hours of TV a week so paying anything for TV or content is a huge waste. Saves so much cash too!
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Yep i bet. Netflix @£96/yr, Prime @ £79/yr, HayU @ £60/yr, VM @£680 and TVL @ £155, give us a grand yearly total of ~£1,070 :eek::eek:. ~520 hours a year of TV makes that a whopping £2/hr.

Ok it's a bit exaggerated as VM includes the internet costs, and we do share the Netflix/HayU/Prime accounts with family so it gets a bit more watching.
 
Not long ago I discovered "This Country" on iPlayer. Has to be the funniest original comedy I've seen for a very long time.
 
billysielu said:
I'm so sick of the licence fee. If they want to replace it with this, fine. If they want to do this on top of the license fee, not fine.
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Also more splitting of shows?

e.g. I just not long ago binge watched the last kingdom which was (partly?) produced by the bbc, if the bbc launch this streaming service would it then get pulled meaning consumers lose yet again from market fragmentation.

I am very curious what this research involved. I certainly wasnt asked if I would be interested in it.
 
Malevolence said:
I still can't understand why the content on iPlayer is so ****. They have the entire BBC back catalogue, yet there's hardly anything on there.
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Yeah I remember when talks were been mentioned of putting old shows from the 70s and 80s on there like grange hill from the very first episode, eastenders during ww2 etc. This was all been talked about I think in the late 1990s early 2000s, and has never happened.
 
What is interesting is that by chance today I was listening to an American podcast from September 2018 and they mentioned Amazon Video Channels and that one was a subscriber to BritBox..

https://www.britbox.com/home

This on-demand service already exists, just only in USA and Canada. Therefore I could see them trying to translate the demand for it in those countries to bringing it to the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BritBox

BritBox is a subscription video on-demand service owned by BritBox LLC, a joint venture of BBC Studios and ITV plc. It is focused on British television series, featuring current and past series supplied from the BBC and ITV. Some series, such as Coronation Street, have new episodes available within a day after their British premiere, although generally within just a few hours of its UK airing. AMC Networks, the BBC's partner on its domestic cable channel BBC America, has a non-voting minority stake in the service.[1] Its launch was officially announced in March 2017.[2][3] It reported a subscriber base of 250,000 in one year, as of March 2018.[4]
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Wikipedia has a list of shows that are available there too.

It isn't a completely new platform to BBC and ITV they just want to roll it out to UK for more customers, and presumably not give Amazon a cut of it too.

https://www.multichannel.com/news/britbox-arrives-us-shores-411350
 
The BBC is so poor now i only watch the bid budget nature programms, which i just buy the 4k discs, and Question Time. The rest is an absolute shower
 
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