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BBC Adds Shows to iTunes
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A lot of the anti-BBC comments here sound like a renting/buying misunderstanding.
The BBC TV license pays for you to watch LIVE TV.
The iPlayer lets you RENT (most) programs which aired in the last 7 days for 30 days (7 days after you start watching) for FREE.
This new iTunes deal lets you BUY older programs, much like buying the DVDs as has already been said, and it looks like it's a good price too.
(I'm not speaking as a fan of the BBC. I'm a student who doesn't have a TV so doesn't need a TV license, and I've seen just how nasty the company can get when you're not paying them money...)
The only problem I have with this is that the only decent show they've added is Life on Mars... Add QI! Top Gear! Dr Who!
The BBC TV license pays for you to watch LIVE TV.
The iPlayer lets you RENT (most) programs which aired in the last 7 days for 30 days (7 days after you start watching) for FREE.
This new iTunes deal lets you BUY older programs, much like buying the DVDs as has already been said, and it looks like it's a good price too.
(I'm not speaking as a fan of the BBC. I'm a student who doesn't have a TV so doesn't need a TV license, and I've seen just how nasty the company can get when you're not paying them money...)
The only problem I have with this is that the only decent show they've added is Life on Mars... Add QI! Top Gear! Dr Who!
well, this link certainly proves the iPlayer is being considered for the AppleTV:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/ip_to_tv_your_comments.html
Let's hope it happens soon. I would definitely buy one if it did.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/ip_to_tv_your_comments.html
Let's hope it happens soon. I would definitely buy one if it did.
Too true
Only difference between BBC and Sky is the size of the banners crawling across the screen "Breaking News! Breaking News! Breaking News! "
It seems people cling to fond memories of a BBC that (perhaps) once was but has now succumbed to market forces
Whereas once we had Moira Stewart and Anna Ford, we now have the likes of Fiona Bruce and (*spit spit spit*) Natasha 'Spangles' Kaplinksy.
interesting but that's going to be a hell of a lot of bandwidth for the BBC to pay for
I downloaded the free first episode of "Damages" from itunes and that was over 500mb. The ISPs are going to have fit if 25 thousand people try to download an episode of doctor who simultaneously !
We have replay on Virgin Media, repeats on BBC 3 and iPlayer where you can grab the file if you've the right software. iTunes might be useful for older programmes but it's a big case of "so what?" at the moment.
Whereas once we had Moira Stewart and Anna Ford, we now have the likes of Fiona Bruce and (*spit spit spit*) Natasha 'Spangles' Kaplinksy.
Indeed… all £1,000,000 worth of her…
I take your point. However the point's still valid that with a bit of organisation and forward planning it's easier than ever to get a decent copy of a programme completely free.
(And if you're running 10.5 you do have a Time Machine of course... (sorry - dreadful joke))
True, but the point remains: us Mac users can still access the content on iPlayer. It might not be as great as a downloaded version (which it on it's way for Mac) but it's still there (and isn't that bad). Many people here were complaining as if we had no access to it at all.
Jesus! Some people need to sort out their reading comprehension!totally agree - we've paid for this content and it's discrimination to make us pay for downloads when PC users don't have to - the BBC are dragging their feet and it's patently unfair. they've already been warned by Parliament about this
hell they use Macs to make the shows but we can't use them to watch them the way we should be able to - you unpick that one
The content on iPlayer and BBC/iTunes isn NOT the same! If a PC user wants to download and purchase passed episodes of BBC shows they can't go to iPlayer - it only stores shows/episodes recently broadcast - instead, they'll have to do exactly the same as the Mac user - go buy the DVD, or buy the download from iTunes. It really isn't that hard to understand.
Also, it's not like the BBC are shutting Mac users out intentionally. They need to sort out the DRM for Macs. Maybe they're already striking a deal with Apple. Maybe they're sorting out DRM for Mac some other way. They said Mac user can download from iPlayer by the end of the year so who knows, it could be next month?
Or.... just stream it!Roba said:
Now... where the hell is Only Fools and Horses!
I can't see any reason why Apple would say no to providing BBC content for free for 7 days.
The extra servers / bandwidth required to support it will be a drop in the ocean compared to what they've already got - though there is no reason why the BBC couldn't pay them (they'd have to pay for them if they were providing the content themselves).
Plus Apple make their money from hardware, not from iTunes which isn't much better than break even for them. Having the BBC content would result in massive iPod and AppleTV sales, so reckon they'd be all for it.
The extra servers / bandwidth required to support it will be a drop in the ocean compared to what they've already got - though there is no reason why the BBC couldn't pay them (they'd have to pay for them if they were providing the content themselves).
Plus Apple make their money from hardware, not from iTunes which isn't much better than break even for them. Having the BBC content would result in massive iPod and AppleTV sales, so reckon they'd be all for it.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 16GB: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3)
exactly why I've just bought it. Wish if would download in order though: still waiting for episode 1 even though it's already done 2, 8 and 9!
ascender said:Series 6 of Spooks for £16.99? And I don't have to waste days of my life ripping and converting episodes? Cheap at the price I say
exactly why I've just bought it. Wish if would download in order though: still waiting for episode 1 even though it's already done 2, 8 and 9!
You can pause the download for the ones you don't want until the first one has downloaded
(I also use that to download one at a time so I can get them faster. It's slow downloading at 128k
)Since when did Doctor Who EVER have anything but bad effects and bad acting??
Do what I did and don't pay it. Problem solved, although the TV license inspectors can be a bit nazi in their tactics.
It's like the majority of US sit-coms. It's simply not funny and full of pie in the face jokes you can see coming from a mile off.