‘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
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.
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
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.