‘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.
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.
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.
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.