TV Licence Super Thread

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edscdk said:
Require a TV license to watch via legacy device secure content on modern device, its not hard
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I think they should put adverts on the BBC and maybe make the iplayer subscription only. It could actually be a good opportunity to focus minds at the BBC over the resources they already have. Putting more material on the iplayer i.e. archive shows.

The BBC have a MASSIVE back catalogue of news, original tv shows and films. They could broadcast sports events and films in UHD exclusively on the iplayer.
 
The BBCs issue is not an outdated model, its a company that has been given far too much money to produce far too much crap that isn't what people want. They still produce some really high quality stuff but they produce far too much niche and politically motivated dross which places politics over actual storytelling quality.

I've never minded paying the license fee in the past because we do get quite a lot for it. Over the past 5 or so years though it has slowly degenerated into a public test of what happens when you let politics take over media. People are no longer producing content based on merit and instead on what messages it pushes and who is involved.
 
fez said:
They still produce some really high quality stuff but they produce far too much niche and politically motivated dross which places politics over actual storytelling quality.
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so should they produce strictly (even if its only 30M) ? just because it is popular, and might/does beat whatevers on the other side, for viewing figures - ITV's getting advertising if people choose to watch their x-factor, dancing on ice equivalent - not sure bbc is any more competent to produce those (but nver seen them just the viewing figures)

edscdk said:
Require a TV license to watch via legacy device secure content on modern device, its not hard
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problem is you need the enforcement services 200M (was it) to enforce legacy licenses, whereas netflix doesn't yet have boys with rubber coshes.
... they were handing out freeview digital boxes when analogue went off - bbc missed the boat to introduce encryption/cam devices back then.
 
BowdonUK said:
What is wrong with running advertisements? It's a more successful system than the current tv license fee as the other commercial channels seem to have lots of money to throw around.
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TV advertising has been shrinking very quickly, and the commercial channels will not want to share the diminishing returns with the BBC. Added to the fact that the BBC is meant to be impartial in politics and business. Will they do exposes on the betting industry when every second ad is for bingo as seems to be the case for daytime ITV?
 
The BBC are not impartial at all any more. Its very much run by the left wing Labour voters and its very much pushing a socio political agenda. The days of it being largely impartial are completely over. Perhaps the news is still reasonably so but a lot of what is on the BBC news site is gossip and "education" related.
 
visibleman said:
So TV and Radio adverts and iPlayer is subscription but, what do you do with "backend" services like infrastructure, R&D etc? Roll that into national tax?
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Why is it my problem where the BBC gets its money from?

I'm not meaning to sound off'ish in that statement. But though I personally like some of the content the BBC puts out and I'm willing to pay the money, the mismanagement of the BBC isn't my problem.

If I want to watch a live tv football match on Amazon Prime what as it got to do with the BBC?

I can understand people in the past paying a license fee because the BBC was the main player in town. But there is no excuse for people today paying multiple subscriptions. It's a rip off.

In the US they still manage to have free-to-air channels. I think the BBC needs to think of itself as a network instead of an institution.

I'm not anti-BBC. I'm happy to pay the tv license fee for now. I just believe the BBC needs to be modernised. They will eventually die off anyway if they dont change as more and more people, especially younger ones, are avoiding them.
 
fez said:
The BBC are not impartial at all any more. Its very much run by the left wing Labour voters and its very much pushing a socio political agenda. The days of it being largely impartial are completely over. Perhaps the news is still reasonably so but a lot of what is on the BBC news site is gossip and "education" related.
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their web-site - who uses it ? other than social media generation is a poor reflection & click-bait shoddy syndicated journalism (so usually not providing links to information sources for fact checking) .. don't see that as representative of what is broadcast where more intelligence is applied.
 
netflix not doing so well with new subscribers either - hiatus with other competition and content people don't want to watch.

... The just-ended quarter featured the strongest slate in Netflix history, with more big titles released in the final months of 2021 than in any previous period. They included new seasons of the popular series “The Witcher” and “Money Heist,” the new shows “Maid” and “My Name,” and the movies “Red Notice” and “Don’t Look Up.”
Those two pictures are Netflix’s two most-viewed original movies ever. People watched the action film “Red Notice” for more than 364 million hours in its first 28 days, and spent almost 350 million hours with the climate-change satire “Don’t Look Up.” That’s the equivalent of about 180 million people watching “Red Notice” once, and about 140 million people going to see “Don’t Look Up.”
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still waiting for that killer series I feel I couldn't do without (good review from creditable sources) to sign up for a month.
 
jpaul said:
netflix not doing so well with new subscribers either - hiatus with other competition and content people don't want to watch.
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Company executives struggled to identify why growth has slowed. They blamed a tough economy, especially in Latin America, as well as lingering fallout from the pandemic. Management also acknowledged the potential impact from rival streaming services.
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Notice the Company executives didn't say it anything to do with there price increases

I been thinking of knocking my Netflix subscription back down to a cheaper one

WOW i just logged in and i didn't know or i forgot it gone up from £11.99 to £13.99 :eek::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
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chaparral said:
Notice the Company executives didn't say it anything to do with there price increases

I been thinking of knocking my Netflix subscription back down to a cheaper one

WOW i just logged in and i didn't know or i forgot it gone up from £11.99 to £13.99 :eek::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Just like with Youtube Premium, if you know the VPN work around you can get it cheaper via different countries. My last bill for Netflix Premium was £3.01. Way cheaper than the UK alternative.

If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be bothering with Netflix as its getting expensive. Even though they increased the prices in many countries, they reduced the price in India to get more subscribers :eek:
 
malachi said:
Just like with Youtube Premium, if you know the VPN work around you can get it cheaper via different countries. My last bill for Netflix Premium was £3.01. Way cheaper than the UK alternative.

If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be bothering with Netflix as its getting expensive. Even though they increased the prices in many countries, they reduced the price in India to get more subscribers :eek:
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Wasn't aware of this. Dont you need an Indian based credit card or similar?
 
chaparral said:
WOW i just logged in and i didn't know or i forgot it gone up from £11.99 to £13.99
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which is more than the bbc license fee - maybe many people are illicitly sharing memberships too (maybe the'll fix that with 2FA)
whilst I wouldn't bother with 4K/hdr which would make it £10 I still don't see the content, or having the time, to justify it;
I'm a conscientious objector too with the likes of the crown drama and the Meghan association, and woke dramas.

Parents chain smoke sky+bt sport rugby matches at ~£50p/m which itself, I find exhorbitant.
 
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