No BBC for me...
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- mpfree0
yes i know they are only clips for you too - you don't have publicly funded national television and radio on the scale that we do. that's why we have a different subscription model from you online.
vespa
(May 16 06, 08:43)right
- Concrete0
I fancy an idealism sandwich with some hypocrisy sauce.
- Engage0
pretty every person in the uk is what you'd call a subscriber...
we paid for it, and quite frankly we don't want you looking at it... so there :D off for a cup of tea
- mpfree0
I fancy an idealism sandwich with some hypocrisy sauce.
Concrete
(May 16 06, 08:46)add a pinch of utopian salt
- vespa0
ok say EVERYONE in the us subscribed to hbo. people wouldn't then want to pay again to watch it online would they?
- mpfree0
pretty every person in the uk is what you'd call a subscriber...
we paid for it, and quite frankly we don't want you looking at it... so there :D off for a cup of tea
Engage
(May 16 06, 08:46)honestly we really dont want to. It's your ex-pats, enjoying the luxuries of the US that do
- mpfree0
ok say EVERYONE in the us subscribed to hbo. people wouldn't then want to pay again to watch it online would they?
vespa
(May 16 06, 08:48)not really. imo, your averge household here would much rather sit and watch it from their TVs.
good enough. HBO is too lazy to put that all together with an online distribution as well
hahaha
- skt0
Would you be happy paying $250 a year for a service that anyone outside your country got for free jaz?
- vespa0
well why do you want to watch bbc content on your computer then if you'd rather watch telly on telly?
i think you'd watch hbo on your computer if you could.
and they're not too lazy, they've even gone to the trouble of making clips of everything.
it's just they haven't solved the online-distribution-vs-funding-m... yet.
we have.
- mpfree0
Would you be happy paying $250 a year for a service that anyone outside your country got for free jaz?
skt
(May 16 06, 08:52)hell no!
it's just they haven't solved the online-distribution- vs-funding-model yet.
we have.
vespa
(May 16 06, 08:54)it's not worth their time. otherwise they would have already done it. HBO had been in existance since the early 80's.
- moural0
The best part about the silly license fee is that it's half-price if you're blind.
Sirius Satellite - now half-price for the deaf!
- longe0
Doesn't work also here... London, UK. Maybe because of the office firewall, but it's weird.
- mpfree0
anyway I don't want to pay for something I don't want. I want to have the freedom and ability to buy exactly what I want to watch.
If they force that tax on you guys, I feel sorry for you. Especially, if you don't appreciate the content that's being delivered, but then again maybe you all do.
- ToxicDesign0
Hmm, I don't get it either. I KNOW the BBC is a paid by UK residents (whether they want to or not), and THAT'S THE POINT! It's not just another "For-Profit Mega Corporation", hence (and the theory goes), you get a better quality news service - not the sensationalist crap like Fox etc.
But, I guess this whole Apple Computer vs Apple Music issue has become a Nationalist Issue! :-)
So anything bashing "those people" - okay.
Anything embarrassing or simply pisses off the British - Not Okay.
I love it!
*Grabs remote to turn on BBC AMERICA - Another service paid for by the generous British TV Licence Paying Public*
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- determinedmoth0
The BBC has informed opinions - you guys wouldn't like it.
- mpfree0
*Grabs remote to turn on BBC AMERICA - Another service paid for by the generous British TV Licence Paying Public*
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ToxicDesign
(May 16 06, 09:00)HAHHAHA, I love that channel. I admit it
and Sky Sports!
- Concrete0
Controversy is my favourite!
- determinedmoth0
Hmm, I don't get it either. I KNOW the BBC is a paid by UK residents (whether they want to or not)
ToxicDesign
(May 16 06, 09:00)That's not actually the case at all.
- vespa0
it's not worth their time. otherwise they would have already done it. HBO had been in existance since the early 80's.
mpfree
(May 16 06, 08:55)you must be quite out of touch with the industry-wide digital distribution debate that is going on at the moment mpfree. they haven't solved it.
it's the same debate going on across music, film and television.
- vespa0
*Grabs remote to turn on BBC AMERICA - Another service paid for by the generous British TV Licence Paying Public*...
ToxicDesign
(May 16 06, 09:00)BBC america / BBC World is not paid for by the british public. in fact it is one of the commercial arms of the bbc that subsidises our license fee.