BBC iplayer, has it had its day.

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If I had a 65" tv screen maybe I'd care more about lack of 4k/hdr content ...question is also, how much does 4k production now add to tv shows ... and what's the lifetime of current 1080 equipment such that it would be economic to start switching over
 
MagicBoy said:
So how does that relate to the iPlayer being "dead in the water"?
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As my answer before, I can only guess, but assumed the user was getting that, the BBC is not keeping up with competition as a whole, and used top gear as an example to show how it isn't ahead of the curve, not future proof, not showing the best of the best quality available (this doesn't bother me), but then that attitude translate to the iplayer, being poorer quality than can be found else where.

It doesn't other me, only David Attenborough should be shown in 4k imo, but I can see why that user would feel for themselves iplayer/BBC is dead in the water.
 
Higher Than Average said:
Does anyone know if I'm allowed to watch the debate between sushi and truss that was shown in BBC yesterday, while I don't have a license? I seem to remember something about politics being exempt.
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I can imagine an exemption for general election / referendum stuff, tho I never heard of that in reality.
This leadership gameshow isn't that though, so seems unlikely.
 
barmyllama said:
TV licence for me represents absolutely the worst value for money of anything I spend money on.

I currently pay less for Disney and Prime combined than a TV licence, per year, to literally watch nothing.

It's only my wife that can't see the pointlessness of having one. Even though she barely watches anything on the BBC or any other live TV programs.

Same with Sky.

If you deduct £30 a month from the £57 we pay currently, to cover the internet. That's £27 for Sky channels and Netflix. I don't watch anything on those Sky channels or watch anything they have on their streaming service. I don't even record anything either, so the box is useless too. The fact that they have adverts on any of their premium channels feels like being shafted twice over.
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Why are you paying so much? Cancel and wait and see what deal they offer you. We are currently paying £35 per month from internet, sky and netflix ultra. I think thats value for money personally.
 
The BBC havent really moved with the times.

They have a massive archive of shows but barely any are available on britbox/iplayer.
Iplayer web is still limited to 720p and only then if you set your region to national.

The parts of BBC I find of value are been shrunk down, news/documentary/website.
 
reanimating thread -> Iplayer broken in latest chrome ?
Recently updated chrome to Version 104.0 in windows. and Iplayer no longer worked just showed buffering/rotating wheel, it was working in opera/FF though.

However I've found it does seem to play in the iplayer popout window, and usually the main window play starts working if you cancel the popout player
can't find any reference to this issue on the internet. .. curious if anyone else has issue.
 
I am no fan of the BBC at all, and don't watch, iPlayer is the only redeeming feature for my licence fee!

They show some decent documentaries now and again, euro boxsets and (old) films.
 
It's ******* ridiculous, it's 2022 and this is the best the BBC can offer? Set to highest available quality and it's not even 720p, let alone 1080p, and with a bitrate so low that it's basically an unwatchable blocky and blurry mess.

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It had the hope of making some value for money on the tv license, but instead they put old content on the commercial britbox, and iplayer still is limited to 720p on web browsers.
 
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