Britbox: The new streaming service

I don't get how with modern day tech how the BBC can't supply license payers with a key to access their stuff. All you have to do is basic encryption tied to a licence number and your email address. But then this is the BBC who'd rather pay Gary Lineker £5m pa.

Em3bbs said:
Why should it be made free of charge? BBC Studios (part owner of Britbox) has nothing to do with iPlayer, it's a commercial arm which helps fund the BBC on top of the license fee. Ironically their service will help to fund and improve iPlayer though.

You're not losing anything, you're just getting more choice that at the end of the day will help fund the BBC.
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I pay for a licence equivant to >£10pm. I'm not paying twice - go do one.
 
I'm afraid that I'm in the camp of "I've already paid for this content" so not keen on an additional fee. Alternatively I'd be happy to pay if they scrapped the license fee. Thankfully there is very little BBC content I find interesting nowadays so I'll ignore this service until I hear compelling reviews about it.

Another one sticking with Netflix and Prime.
 
Haven't really paid much attention to this but just seen an advert narrated by Tom Baker announcing all Doctor Who episodes will be available from today. Wonder if this includes all the Dalek episodes which Terry Nation's estate sometimes withhold.

Also - anyone who's using it - is Blake's 7 on there? You can't see what programmes there are without signing up.
 
I was tempted by this. But then I heard they are cutting scenes out from old programmes deemed not to be politically correct.

If I'm paying for something and watching it then I'm not going to be surprised by something contraversial. I don't need big brother telling me what I can and can't watch - especially when I'm paying for it.
 
I think this was the final thing that convinced me to not renew my TV licence. I only ever turned to live TV for short periods when I didn't have time to watch a complete episode of something on Netflix etc. Then saw the advert for this maybe a month or two ago and just thought f%$k it. So disconnected the aerial today and will just watch YouTube instead :)
 
This will flop I think .


My fear with all these services is that Netflix will start to become less appealing .No way im subscribing to more than 2 streaming services
 
They've got some cheek asking for another subscription, not a chance. I've just about had it with live TV, BTS has gone, Premier sports ditto, SKY is going at the end of Feb and the TV licence will follow that. I don't really watch much live TV any more but I had noticed how biased BBC's news coverage had been from the Scots Indy Ref onwards, through several GE's and Brexit, nothing short of a disgrace in fact. Quite ironic they have bent over backwards to support the tories when its the tories who would like nothing better than to end the licence fee that they cling to for dear life, while Labour et al are far more supportive of the BBC in general.

But, they made their bed with tories and they can now lie in it, but without any funding from me.

As for SKY its nothing but a constant bombadment of adverts, life's too short, If I can't watch content uninterrupted, I'm not interested in watching it. VAR has ruined football and the EPL is over-hyped rubbish anway, they only psorts I'll truly miss are the NFL on SKY and NCAAF on BTS, both of which only run for 5-6 months a year - i'll make 'other arrangements' for those next season.

Prime wipes its own face with delivery savings, even if the content isn't great, Netflix isn't bad, and you can sign up for a month, binge the heck out of it and cancel. If providers think I'm having 6-7 subs as they chop up content to smaller and small pieces, they can think again!

Top class Fibre is cheap as chips now (SKY's has been great @ £27 P/M), i've got a STEAM library full of games I play while TV plays to itself in the background, contracted TV is an unecessary financial commitment unless you can't live without it.

Total saving a year: £1400 ish.
 
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