BBC iplayer gets better!

[clippedgull]

BBC iPlayer - Home

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

It´ll be better still when you can download if you are not in the UK

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Looks good but needs to do what the 4od site does and have archives of old shows. We all pay our licence fee why not keep on back dated stuff on.

I read they were looking at overseas editions and for Mac users, like it but need to catch up with with 4

4oD - Channel 4's TV and Film on Demand service

 

[CHAPPERS]

It´ll be better still when you can download if you are not in the UK

But you don't pay licence fees innit?

 

[clippedgull]

But you don't pay licence fees innit?

That may be true, but you don't need a licence to watch shows on the iplayer.

I think it maybe something to do with copyright issues ( BBC selling programmes abroad).

 

[Superseagull]

It´ll be better still when you can download if you are not in the UK

Agreed. I'd be quite happy to pay a small fee to watch high quality BBC TV in my hotel room in some far flung corner of the world. Still considering the Slingbox as an option.

 

[sten_super]

Is it absolutely to do with the fact that the rights to broadcast any BBC show abroad are sold seperately. Letting people have these things for free on the iPlayer would undermine that, and even if they charged for it it would overcomplicate any negotiations with foreign broadcasters.

The reason that they don't have a back-catalogue of stuff up there is presumably because you can buy these things on DVD or through iTunes; and they don't want to damage those revenue streams.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

The reason that they don't have a back-catalogue of stuff up there is presumably because you can buy these things on DVD or through iTunes; and they don't want to damage those revenue streams.

Not strictly speaking; it's because the BBC's charter won't let it put a back-catalogue of stuff up there. Give it four years