BBC:
Video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime now have more subscribers than traditional pay TV services in the UK, new data from Ofcom has revealed.
The media regulator says British TV will have to change the way it operates if it wants to compete with the internet giants.
Sharon White, Ofcom's chief executive, says: "We'd love to see broadcasters such as the BBC work collaboratively with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 so that they have got that scale to compete globally, making shows together, co-producing great shows that all of us can watch.
"I think it would be great to see a British Netflix."
BrexitFlix?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:56AM (8 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:26AM (6 children)
This is not how I read:
Specifically, I miss the point where they would be "complaining". Care to show it to me? Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:45AM (5 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:12AM (4 children)
It's only implied if you want to read that into it. In other words, that for you it is implied tells more about you than about the one who made the statement.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:20AM (2 children)
I will spell it out once for you retards. (Apologies to real retards, I know you're much better than this.)
The TV tax applies to broadcast TV. And BBC rebroadcasts anywhere.
It doesn't apply to UK resident watching TV from any other country in the world, online.
Yes, the buggy makers think Ford is unfair. Moderators who are not genuinely mentally retarded, but simulate it in an offensive manner, should be made to pay appropriately.
Can we livestream it?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @11:15AM
Adik, you are being extra dickish today (no, that's not a compliment). So either start acting like less of a dick, or go get yourself some more dick, because whatever you're doing at the moment is definitely the wrong measure.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @06:28PM
Ok, let me dig out my paper copy of the TV license....
From the About your TV License box
So, as long as it's only foreign catch-up TV then you're correct, otherwise they still want their pound of flesh.
NB, the TV license isn't about traditional (RF) receivers anymore 'desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets!..oh my!'
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:22AM
"Mommy, mommy! There's a monster in my closet!"
"Oh, shush. There's no such thing as monsters. Let me prove it to you."
Following the exchange with her son, the mother got up off of the boy's bed and walked over to the closet. The woman then opened the accordion-style closet door about halfway, and stopped. Just as she was about to turn around and smile at her son, a hand reached out of the closet, grabbed her throat, and quickly pulled her in. After this, the closet door slammed shut.
Then came the screaming. Oh, did she scream. The mother screamed so loud that it pierced one's eardrums. This was accompanied by loud bangs and slams, moans of pleasure, and flesh slapping against flesh. The closet door was shaking so violently that it seemed as if it would fall right off. And the boy just stared blankly at the door. Even though he should have run away, he was paralyzed by terror and despair, and so he simply stared. Suddenly, a loud thud was heard, and everything went silent. Total silence.
However, that silence was short-lived; the closet door soon opened partway, and someone's upper body leaned out from within. It... was a man. It was an obese man with beady little black eyes and a smile on his face. Oh, what a smile. Oh, what a horrifying smile it was. As the man exited the closet and crept towards the bed, the little boy simply stared at the nightmarish figure before him. Yes, there was no chance of escape, anyway...
"Night-night!" said the man, as he gently tucked them into bed. To him, seeing them sleep so soundly together was truly heartwarming. The man left the house with a genuine smile on his face, never to return.
Several months later, a mother and her son would be found lying on a bed together. They lived together, they slept together, and now they rotted together.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:40PM
There's Pluto TV, it was a highlighted app on my TV, Hundreds of channels, and combined with OTA TV (with its 3-4 times as many channels as when TV was analog) it makes cable completely obsolete. I'd say it's a bigger threat to the BBC than Netflix (although with the deterioration of all the cable channels since 1980, it alone is a threat to cable).
Cable TV is obsolete. I have an upcoming article about that.
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