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'Netflix Effect' Poses Challenge to British TV

posted by mrpg on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-dont-adapt-anime dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:19AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:19AM (#709290)

    From that very page:

    On March 25, 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London. […] By January 26, 1926 he demonstrated the transmission of an image of a face in motion by radio.

    I'm absolutely sure that 1926 is later than 1918.

    That people experimented with image transmission before does not mean that TV existed back then. Even though they had experimental devices that did part of what TV does.

    It's like claiming that we already have fusion power because there exist several fusion research facilities around the world. Oh, and we already had successful tests of large-scale fusion power generation in the form of thermonuclear bombs …

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:31AM (#709296)

    I'm absolutely sure that 1926 is later than 1918.

    92 years is 100 years in common parlance. Mere decades (your claim) would be twenty to thirty years.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:33PM (#709418)

      goalpost moving is fun weeeeee