V+ : Glasto Red Button channels

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by smallclone

Problem with that logic is that people with a £30 media streamer can access the iPlayer red button content.

But paying £1080 a year for my Virgin Media subs doesn't.

That's where my frustration lies.

Virgin's V box platform is technically not capable of receiving the CRB content due to the way the BBC have chosen to distribute it.

The BBC has an obligation to make it's content as widely available as possible, and have chose 'Connected' devices as the future way to do that. So if that covers both TiVo and a '£30 Media Streamer' then that's achieving that aim.

It's then your choice as to which route you go down.

[smallclone]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Virgin's V box platform is technically not capable of receiving the CRB content due to the way the BBC have chosen to distribute it.

The BBC has an obligation to make it's content as widely available as possible, and have chose 'Connected' devices as the future way to do that. So if that covers both TiVo and a '£30 Media Streamer' then that's achieving that aim.

It's then your choice as to which route you go down.

Fair enough.They could have at least explained this somewhere at the time though. Just a message saying "For Non Tivo users to get live coverage please go to the BBC website"

By the time I had realised that - the stuff I wanted to watch was long gone.