Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
It wasn’t until the BBC took the lead in rebranding digital terrestrial TV as Freeview that set top box sales began to climb to levels where analogue broadcast switch-off dates could be proposed. There is a large constituency of TV viewers in the UK who aren’t interested in paying for TV and won’t buy any hardware that’s not essential. They’re never going to buy a fire stick, a Roku, Britbox or Now TV. |
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
---------- Post added at 16:47 ---------- Previous post was at 16:40 ---------- Quote:
My thought on this is there will be just the one service available for this purpose - Britbox UK with ads.If we no longer have TV channels, the i-Player and hubs will disappear. |
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
|
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
Certainly you fell for the reports, presumably leaked by the League to drive up prices, that Amazon were expressing a high level of interest. I wouldn't describe not bidding more than the publicly available 2016-19 bids as a high level of interest, but each to their own. https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...82&postcount=9 |
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
|
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
|
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
---------- Post added at 16:54 ---------- Previous post was at 16:53 ---------- Quote:
Amazon's high level of interest would have prompted them to bid for the 'bargain basement rights' to test it out. ---------- Post added at 16:57 ---------- Previous post was at 16:54 ---------- Quote:
|
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Just like a clever obfuscating politician the story changes on a daily basis....
|
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
There's everything wrong with mandating to television manufacturers that they have to continue to support apps that are ten years old on hardware that is ten years old when there's no commercial incentive for them to do so.
They won't want to do it and actually it'd be virtually unenforceable. Are we going to start a trade war with TV manufacturers? |
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
---------- Post added at 17:11 ---------- Previous post was at 17:08 ---------- Quote:
Maybe they will set a timeline on it. After all, if your TV or washing machine stops working then it stops working and you have to get another one. I’m not clear on why you think this is any different. |
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
So if a retailer, such as Amazon, is shipping televisions from abroad will we ban them from entering the UK unless there's a guarantee the software will be maintained for ten years? Add into the mix I'm sure the nations that are major manufacturers of televisions wouldn't particularly like this kind of rule for one small country. It'd never get through trade negotiations. |
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
|
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
The ability to compel a manufacturer, presumably based abroad as we don't make anything in this country, to adhere to such an arbitrary requirement simply does not exist. The retailer perhaps, but they are just a middleman so why should they suffer? |
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
|
Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
Quote:
I don’t think consumers should have to put up with this. ---------- Post added at 17:53 ---------- Previous post was at 17:51 ---------- Quote:
Any trade deal will cover standards expected of manufactured goods. This is no different. |
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 18:52. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.