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on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:47PM
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.
BBC:
More than 7,000 people still watch TV in black and white more than half a century after colour broadcasts began.
London has the most TV licences for black and white sets at 1,768, followed by 431 in the West Midlands and 390 in Greater Manchester.
A total of 7,161 UK households have failed to start watching in colour despite transmissions starting in 1967.
BBC2 was the first channel to regularly broadcast in colour from July that year with the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The number of black and white licences has almost halved in the past five years and is down from 212,000 in 2000.
Aha! Those must be the last Manichaeans.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 09 2018, @03:18AM (1 child)
VPN's work, sometimes, for those of us outside of the UK. Unfortunately, VPN IP addresses have been blocked in the past. I would expect that SOMEONE would come up with a legal, or semi-legal scheme to rebroadcast outside of "authorized" regions. As you state, you would be willing to pay the full license fee. There are probably millions of others who would be willing. My wife, for instance, would never pay the full licensing fee, but if it were cut to about 25%, she might go for it. Me? Highly unlikely that I would ever pay anything. I'd prefer to "pirate" the odd program that appeals to me.
There is obviously a market out there, that the BBC would be wise to exploit, even if that market were less lucrative than their local monopoly.
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday November 09 2018, @07:24AM
> VPN's work, sometimes, for those of us outside of the UK. Unfortunately, VPN IP addresses have been blocked in the past. I would expect that SOMEONE would come up with a legal, or semi-legal scheme to rebroadcast outside of "authorized" regions.
Get a small VPS in the UK, and set up your own VPN system (could be a simple as a point to point SSH tunnel).
VPS IPs are far more wide ranging than VPN ones, and they are not going to be blocked easily. Also, if you don't advertise your VPN service or otherwise take money for it, chances are they would never know where you are really based.
A lot of techy British ex-pats use the above method when they are abroad but want to watch the Beeb. It works pretty well, but just make sure you get a VPS with enough bandwidth (and allocated data) to sustain your streaming demands.