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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: 2) by Arik on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:20AM (2 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:20AM (#709292) Journal
    Oh ffs.

    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?
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @11:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @11:15AM (#709314)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @06:28PM (#709549)

    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.

    Ok, let me dig out my paper copy of the TV license....
    From the About your TV License box

    This license lets you use and install TV receiving equipment at the licensed place. You are covered to:

    a) watch and record programmes as they’re being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, including programmes streamed over the internet and satellite programmes from outside the UK, and

    b) watch and download BBC programmes on demand, including catch up TV, on BBC iPlayer.

    This can be on any device, including TVs, desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, games consoles, digital boxes, DVD, Blu-ray and VHS recorders, or anything else.

    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!'