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From: ogden on 2 Aug 2010 07:01 Ace wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:30:42 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > > >Ace wrote: > > >> What does annoy me is their sports coverage, i.e. Motogp and F1, not > >> being available to us on iPlayer. I don't mean live, but after the > >> event would be nice on those occasions I miss it. > > > >For MotoGP, Dorna will happily sell you > > Stop! That magic S word makes it of no conceivable interest to me. The Freetard Manifesto embodied. > >access to the video library on the MotoGP web site. > > I don't want the entire video library. I just want to see the race if > I miss it at the weekend. You buy access to see that race and get the rest of the library thrown in. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | ktm duke ii
From: Kevin Gleeson on 2 Aug 2010 07:39 On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:50:24 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:54:19 GMT, Kevin Gleeson ><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: > >>Any idea why the BBC blocks their stuff outside of the UK? > >It's because it's paid for by UK residents. > >>Is it something to do with your insane TV licensing laws? > >Care to explain what's insane about it? I can't imagine why you would be charged to own a receiver. A transmitter, yes. If the service provider is happy to transmit it uncoded then having a receiver and having to have a licence for it seems stupid. If I head back to the UK with a USB stick, why should I have to pay? If it is cable pay to air, fine. If you want that service, then pay for it. Do you want to pay a licence fee for your transistor radio? Don't you turn your BBC4 on without giving youe credit card details first. Most of the time I think they should be paying _us_ to watch television. I can't think of any other reason for doing it. -- Kev
From: Kevin Gleeson on 2 Aug 2010 07:44 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:12:01 +0000 (UTC), "Krusty" <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: >Kevin Gleeson wrote: > >> Any idea why the BBC blocks their stuff outside of the UK? Is it >> something to do with your insane TV licensing laws? > >As Ace says, a lot of it's due to their contract with the supplier. >This is particularly true of sport. > >The same applies for the stuff the BBC produce, but the other way >round. They couldn't really make something like Top Gear available >worldwide on iPlayer, then expect to charge other countries' carriers >huge amounts for the rights to show it. I've worked in television since I left school. There's something else going on there. And it isn't just due to suppliers. I saw that clip in the pub tonight. BBC are doing something different, even with their own news stories and I am not sure what it is or what the reason is for it. Oh and I have worked for the BBC and News Limited. Just trying to figure out what the logic behind it is. ABC here spreads everything they do worldwide across net, several free to air bands, whatever they can do. I don't get what game the BBC is playing -- Kev.
From: Ace on 2 Aug 2010 07:54 On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:39:29 GMT, Kevin Gleeson <kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: >On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:50:24 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >>On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:54:19 GMT, Kevin Gleeson >><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: >> >>>Any idea why the BBC blocks their stuff outside of the UK? >> >>It's because it's paid for by UK residents. >> >>>Is it something to do with your insane TV licensing laws? >> >>Care to explain what's insane about it? > >I can't imagine why you would be charged to own a receiver. Oh, you'er talking about the TV license. This is completely unrelated to what we were talking about, which is the BBC's licensing in, and out, of programming, which has now been explained quite well. But for all you may not be able to imagine it, it's now almost universal across europe, and many other parts of the world.
From: ogden on 2 Aug 2010 08:06
Kevin Gleeson wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:12:01 +0000 (UTC), "Krusty" > <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: > > >Kevin Gleeson wrote: > > > >> Any idea why the BBC blocks their stuff outside of the UK? Is it > >> something to do with your insane TV licensing laws? > > > >As Ace says, a lot of it's due to their contract with the supplier. > >This is particularly true of sport. > > > >The same applies for the stuff the BBC produce, but the other way > >round. They couldn't really make something like Top Gear available > >worldwide on iPlayer, then expect to charge other countries' carriers > >huge amounts for the rights to show it. > > I've worked in television since I left school. There's something else > going on there. Really, it's about rights, particularly in the case of sport, and monetisation of assets. As I'm sure you know, even a single program can be a tangled mess of rights and even if the BBC owned blanket rights on something they still might not want to hand it to the world gratis when it could be used as a revenue stream. The difference being content within the UK which is "free" because anyone with a tv licence has already paid for the right to access it. As to your reference to a licence for a transistor radio in another post, there did used to be a radio licence, but it was superceded by the tv licence. What of it? > And it isn't just due to suppliers. I saw that clip in > the pub tonight. BBC are doing something different, even with their > own news stories and I am not sure what it is or what the reason is > for it. Oh and I have worked for the BBC and News Limited. Big wow. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | ktm duke ii |