‘The obvious alternative is to become a subscription-based service like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Given the BBC’s global brand recognition and its reputation for producing premium content, it could become the largest and most profitable streaming service in the world.’
Maybe if your programming was to the quality of 20 years ago you COULD make that argument but in it's current state? Unless the BBC went like Amazon but FULLY digitised their ENTIRE archives including 'lost episodes' and made them available for subscribers, there isn't much they can offer.
It’ll be like why I refuse to watch shows like South Park other than on the seas. They will quietly remove episodes that aren’t “suitable for modern audiences”. They’ve done it to shows even as tame as 30 Rock for an episode that had 5 seconds of black face, to make fun of black face. Plex or equivalent and an external hd
Do you have a suggestion for a client (or server) that does round-robin on torrents? I've been considering writing a script to manage that externally with Transmission.
I remember the old Azareus had this and anything else you could think of. It's called Vuze now, but it has ads and seems sketchy.
I think clients mostly have a limit on the number of upload connections rather than cycling through which torrents are available, but that doesn't seem to work well when seeding lots of torrents.
Piracy’s keeping companies honest at this point. It’s about the only pushback from artificial marketplaces, and honestly ridiculous digital sales practices, like trying to charge somebody the price of a disc to simply stream movies for a limited period of time they could revoke at any moment.
Also helps if you want to see how bad something is but don’t want to support it, like when Barbie hits the high seas.
It'll also end up like Disney+, where it would get a huge surge initially for people to watch stuff they loved from their childhood and then they'd all cancel within a few months because of the lack of any real staying power.
And unlike D+, they won't be able to get away with dripfeeding old content or holding cinematic universes hostage on it. So it would end up blowing their load instantly and then falling off.
Sure, they may try for a bailout or tax it out of us, but that's only going to piss off the normies big time.
As if they care what people think when it comes to securing their power.
In Germany they technically call it a subscription fee, not a tax. They also love to call it a "democracy fee". Plus, they recently dropped the requirement to be able to watch state-media broadcasts. Now every household has to pay that "fee" regardless of whether you actually watch their propaganda.
The estimated evasion rate, which in part is being driven by the cost-of-living crisis, has increased to over ten per cent for the first time since 1995.
UK imports millions of refugees, evasion rate of BBC skyrockets...the explanation must be cost of living increases!
It really is hilarious how they rationalize things to avoid the real answer.
They could just tax people and get the money from the treasury. It's not like they're afraid to tax. This is an example of a government department justifying its continued existence. Should be eliminated.
Death to the BBC and all left wing media. Tell me more about these emails they are sending you. Can you post one here so we can see? I'm curious out they beg. Like darksydephil.
There is data from earlier in the week about numbers of people watching TV and listening to radio in the UK. They're collapsing even with the elderly. And not just for the BBC. Everyone is moving online but importantly, not to free services. They are embracing the paywall/pay for consumption model. It ties in with a downturn and consumer revolt against advertising, sponsorship and voluntary memberships and desire to pay directly for content people consume. To paraphrase Louis Rossman, payment for service and value.
The awful truth for us is that while everyone agrees about the BBC and even the likes of ITV and Channel 4, we may be critical of the politics and wokeness of Netflix (never forget the fact that Cuties was a thing) but the public just says "shut up and take my money". Same with Disney+, Amazon, Spotify et al. Even if people begrudge the price rises, people are still paying and the churn rates (the percentage of people who leave a service) is still low.
Radio is going the same way too. The BBC is making terrestrial broadcasting legacy platforms, even DAB, and putting everything into its Sounds app. Their commercial counterparts Global and Bauer are dipping their toes into pay radio not to compete with Spotify Free but with Spotify Premium and are now focusing more on apps where they can put their stations behind a paywall. It will be a problem for my Internet radio set as stations move exclusively behind apps and it offers less and less free streams to listen to. I have a shortwave radio but now it's predominately Chinese state broadcasters.
Terrestrial broadcasting is on borrowed time as the mobile phone networks eye up the remaining spectrum for future expansion of bandwidth which is better at penetrating rural areas and indoor spaces as opposed to higher gigahertz frequencies. Networks that can easily outbid the broadcasters by a massive amount. Satellite is going the same way too, Sky is moving toward an Internet streaming future and Virgin Media is following them.
This explains why Disney invested in the BBC. Get access to those shows, and then put them on Disney+ when BBC dies. Of course the treatment will be about the same as marvel, fox ect.
I can't remember if Taskmaster or cats does countdown is on BBC. I do know taskmaster has been setting stuff up so they can leave any time.
Not just the BBC. There are many people calling for the abolition of free-to-air broadcasting after controversies at ITV and Channel 4. Same with radio as people move to Spotify Premium. And there is a revolt against the advertising, sponsorship and membership models of funding at the same time these models are being hit by the cost of living crisis.
There's honestly not a lot they can do to make you play the loicense. Any "enforcement officer" that shows up at your door can be cleanly told to fuck off.
Maybe if your programming was to the quality of 20 years ago you COULD make that argument but in it's current state? Unless the BBC went like Amazon but FULLY digitised their ENTIRE archives including 'lost episodes' and made them available for subscribers, there isn't much they can offer.
It’ll be like why I refuse to watch shows like South Park other than on the seas. They will quietly remove episodes that aren’t “suitable for modern audiences”. They’ve done it to shows even as tame as 30 Rock for an episode that had 5 seconds of black face, to make fun of black face. Plex or equivalent and an external hd
Yes and for a "huge" investment of just $200 you can get an 18 TiB data drive - that's big enough to preserve so much history.
You don't even need a backup for it, just back up the torrent files and if the drive fails download them again.
I do this but only enable the ones that need more seeds so it doesn't use all my bandwidth. Or use a client that does them all round robin.
Do you have a suggestion for a client (or server) that does round-robin on torrents? I've been considering writing a script to manage that externally with Transmission.
I remember the old Azareus had this and anything else you could think of. It's called Vuze now, but it has ads and seems sketchy.
I think clients mostly have a limit on the number of upload connections rather than cycling through which torrents are available, but that doesn't seem to work well when seeding lots of torrents.
Piracy’s keeping companies honest at this point. It’s about the only pushback from artificial marketplaces, and honestly ridiculous digital sales practices, like trying to charge somebody the price of a disc to simply stream movies for a limited period of time they could revoke at any moment.
Also helps if you want to see how bad something is but don’t want to support it, like when Barbie hits the high seas.
It'll also end up like Disney+, where it would get a huge surge initially for people to watch stuff they loved from their childhood and then they'd all cancel within a few months because of the lack of any real staying power.
And unlike D+, they won't be able to get away with dripfeeding old content or holding cinematic universes hostage on it. So it would end up blowing their load instantly and then falling off.
As if they care what people think when it comes to securing their power.
In Germany they technically call it a subscription fee, not a tax. They also love to call it a "democracy fee". Plus, they recently dropped the requirement to be able to watch state-media broadcasts. Now every household has to pay that "fee" regardless of whether you actually watch their propaganda.
That sounds like East Germany is trying to rewin its land
East Germany won.
Remember: Angela Merkel was ex-STASI. An this reflects through the entire German media landscape.
The attempts to make everyone Nice instead of smart. It controlled Germany for decades, and then it spread.
I knew I hated that woman. For a lot of reasons. But I didn't know that.
they never killed the stasi
Killing a quarter of the population is hard to kill...
they denazified but never destasified.
And now they came even with a Netflix-like offering ON TOP OF IT: https://www.ardplus.de/
Yes, they are using the "democracy fee" to produce garbage that they lock behind a paywall.
UK imports millions of refugees, evasion rate of BBC skyrockets...the explanation must be cost of living increases!
It really is hilarious how they rationalize things to avoid the real answer.
Klaus will just order his minion Rishi Sunak to fix it with more government funding. Auntie Beeb is too useful to WEF as a propaganda outlet.
The nice thing about modern digital video standards is there's very little difference between televisions and computer monitors.
"Oh that thing over there that looks like a TV? That's my computer monitor. I use it for photo and video editing."
Now do taxes, Brits.
What happened to forcing people to pay for a TV license? Was that ever a real thing?
They could just tax people and get the money from the treasury. It's not like they're afraid to tax. This is an example of a government department justifying its continued existence. Should be eliminated.
Death to the BBC and all left wing media. Tell me more about these emails they are sending you. Can you post one here so we can see? I'm curious out they beg. Like darksydephil.
There is data from earlier in the week about numbers of people watching TV and listening to radio in the UK. They're collapsing even with the elderly. And not just for the BBC. Everyone is moving online but importantly, not to free services. They are embracing the paywall/pay for consumption model. It ties in with a downturn and consumer revolt against advertising, sponsorship and voluntary memberships and desire to pay directly for content people consume. To paraphrase Louis Rossman, payment for service and value.
The awful truth for us is that while everyone agrees about the BBC and even the likes of ITV and Channel 4, we may be critical of the politics and wokeness of Netflix (never forget the fact that Cuties was a thing) but the public just says "shut up and take my money". Same with Disney+, Amazon, Spotify et al. Even if people begrudge the price rises, people are still paying and the churn rates (the percentage of people who leave a service) is still low.
Radio is going the same way too. The BBC is making terrestrial broadcasting legacy platforms, even DAB, and putting everything into its Sounds app. Their commercial counterparts Global and Bauer are dipping their toes into pay radio not to compete with Spotify Free but with Spotify Premium and are now focusing more on apps where they can put their stations behind a paywall. It will be a problem for my Internet radio set as stations move exclusively behind apps and it offers less and less free streams to listen to. I have a shortwave radio but now it's predominately Chinese state broadcasters.
Terrestrial broadcasting is on borrowed time as the mobile phone networks eye up the remaining spectrum for future expansion of bandwidth which is better at penetrating rural areas and indoor spaces as opposed to higher gigahertz frequencies. Networks that can easily outbid the broadcasters by a massive amount. Satellite is going the same way too, Sky is moving toward an Internet streaming future and Virgin Media is following them.
This explains why Disney invested in the BBC. Get access to those shows, and then put them on Disney+ when BBC dies. Of course the treatment will be about the same as marvel, fox ect.
I can't remember if Taskmaster or cats does countdown is on BBC. I do know taskmaster has been setting stuff up so they can leave any time.
I would love some new episodes of Grand Toure, but I think the trio are aging out.
Had to look it up, Cats does countdown is channel 4.
I would love to see a grand tour of Japan. They've done episodes there but not a full tour.
Yeah, just skip Argentina...
James May did a series in Japan called "Our man in Japan" it is pretty good but it's certainly not the trio.
Not just the BBC. There are many people calling for the abolition of free-to-air broadcasting after controversies at ITV and Channel 4. Same with radio as people move to Spotify Premium. And there is a revolt against the advertising, sponsorship and membership models of funding at the same time these models are being hit by the cost of living crisis.
ITV for both I think
Channel 4 for Cats Countdown. I don't claim to know how all the channels are connected.
Nah, bruv
Here's hoping that woke organisations get burned to the ground but as BBC is government funded, I don't think that's likely.
There's honestly not a lot they can do to make you play the loicense. Any "enforcement officer" that shows up at your door can be cleanly told to fuck off.
They're not really cancelled, they are just succumbing to the writers strike. They will probably be back after the strike ends.
As for the abandonment to the BBC.
Good fucking riddance.
Many years ago, I would never have thought to say that, but their crimes can not bee ignored.