Do You Need The BBC?

[alchresearch]

Oh dear. You appear to be very out of touch with the quality of content that Netflix offers, for a cheaper price than the BBC.

 

Yes:

 

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: First image from the Netflix reboot

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41349976

 

Lost in Space review: EW's critics ponder Netflix's pointless reboot

http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/02/lost-in-space-netflix-review/

 

Netflix has the occasional hit in a sea of dross. That's why so many people share a sub, and why its so cheap.

[melthebell]

"fight tooth and nail to prevent being broadcast", laughable nonsense.

 

 

 

Was not made by Netflix, rather Molucca media, a company set up by George Galloway to channel earnings he recieved from the Iranian state-funded broadcaster! In this instance Galloway is one of those "metropolitan elites, feeding off the public purse" you claim to hate

 

 

 

Was not made by Netflix, rather ARTE which is funded by TV license fees paid in France and Germany!

 

 

 

Presumably, applying your logic here, ITV are censors because they don't broadcast Countryfile!

 

Netflix won't commit to leaving its content uncensored around the world

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10724616/netflix-ces-2016-uncensored-original-global-content

Why the <removed> is breaking bad censored on netflix

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/why-the-f-is-breaking-bad-censored-on-netflix.206076717/

 

Non-censored you say? Nah, it's the "you don't have a clue what you're on about" factor

So its NOT the bright new world that he makes out

 

The trouble with netflix is because it has the name splashed on it they think its made by them when a lot isnt, they just buy stuff up. so that license fee could have been used to make something on netflix

[spilldig]

I suspect there'd still be a TV licence whether or not it funded the BBC....

 

I suspect so. I couldn't see the government not wanting the overseas world service for one, but if so it should come into general taxation.

[Car Boot]

Yes:

 

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: First image from the Netflix reboot

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41349976

 

Lost in Space review: EW's critics ponder Netflix's pointless reboot

http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/02/lost-in-space-netflix-review/

 

Netflix has the occasional hit in a sea of dross. That's why so many people share a sub, and why its so cheap.

 

So many people share a subscription to Netflix because its funding model encourages this. It aims to be customer friendly. The BBC threatens it's customers with a large fine and criminal record.

 

Tony Hall, BBC Director General, recognises that this funding model (voluntary subscription, cancel at any time, no contract) is the future:

 

“The global media landscape is going to be dominated by four, perhaps five, businesses on the west coast of America in the years to come. Companies with extraordinary technical, financial and creative firepower".

 

All funded by people voluntarily subscribing - not being coerced under threat of prosecution, criminal record and large fine.

 

As for BBC creativity, the best it can muster are remakes of 'The Generation Game' and 'Worzel Gummidge'. BBC creativity is sterile. No new ideas, nothing. Constantly looking back to it's 1970s heyday, when admittedly it was very good. Those days are long gone.

 

---------- Post added 10-04-2018 at 22:25 ----------

 

So its NOT the bright new world that he makes out

 

Its not a bright new world for the BBC, which simply can't compete.

 

The BBC has found that 16 to 24-year-olds spend more time with Netflix in a week than with all of BBC TV including the BBC iPlayer, despite the latter’s relative popularity with younger viewers.

 

Younger viewers are not switching on to hear the BBC establishment propaganda, and reject the BBC affluent middle-class liberal viewpoint which permeates its programmes.

[melthebell]

So many people share a subscription to Netflix because its funding model encourages this. It aims to be customer friendly. The BBC threatens it's customers with a large fine and criminal record.

 

Netflix says one account per household and any students from the household, the BBC license also covers the whole household, and any students from said household.

[A.B.Yaffle]

ok it has a couple of documentaries too, any radio? world service? current affairs (news)

 

Do you think everyone who listens to BBC radio should be forced to buy the licence? Why should someone who doesn't watch BBC but pays to watch sky sports be forced to subsidise people who listen to BBC radio or use the BBC website?

[Car Boot]

Netflix says one account per household and any students from the household, the BBC license also covers the whole household, and any students from said household.

 

I don't know what that nonsense about students is you've mentioned, but Netflix can have up to five individual profiles per single Netflix account to allow different members of a household to have their own personalised Netflix experience, built around the TV shows and movies they enjoy.

 

With Netflix a customer can access their account on any device anywhere with Internet access.

 

You can physically take your Netflix household account to any other household in the world and continue to watch it. And back again. The BBC, stuck in the 20th century, limits the BBC TV licence fee to cover a single physical UK address.

 

Going on holiday to Melbourne, Australia? Take your Netflix account with you. And then bring it back again when you return.

 

---------- Post added 10-04-2018 at 23:21 ----------

 

Netflix says one account per household and any students from the household, the BBC license also covers the whole household, and any students from said household.

 

Actually, you can have as many Netflix accounts per household as you can afford. All Netflix needs is an email address and payment, after the first months completely free viewing.

 

It's best not to think of Netflix in the same way we do the outdated, unfair BBC TV licence fee, which requires a physical UK address. Think of Netflix in the same way we do email - we can access it anywhere there is an Internet connection in the world. We just need to log on from any device.

 

You, and the BBC, need to join the rest of us in the 21st century.

[alchresearch]

I don't know what that nonsense about students is you've mentioned, but Netflix can have up to five individual profiles per single Netflix account to allow different members of a household to have their own personalised Netflix experience, built around the TV shows and movies they enjoy.

 

Sharing out of the household is well documented:

 

More than one-fifth of young adults who stream shows like Game of Thrones or Stranger Things borrow passwords from people who do not live with them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, a finding that suggests media companies are missing out on significant revenue as digital viewership explodes.

 

Twenty-one percent of streaming viewers ages 18 to 24 said they had accessed at least one digital video service such as Netflix, HBO Now or Hulu by using log-in credentials from someone outside their household at some time. Overall, 12% of adults said they did the same thing.

[melthebell]

Im just viewing another thread on the subject of netflix and hula on another forum i frequent and people think they are crap, the main reason is there ISNT a full list of programmes they deliver AND some complain theres not that much content.

Also they complain a series might have 72 episodes then be missing the final 4, or regarding films they might have the 2nd or 3rd in a series but not the first.

[alchresearch]

I know what you mean. I know a few people with Netflix - a couple of them share their sub with someone else. What they use it for is a supplement to their traditional viewing. Its like an addition to Freeview without going for the full Sky or Virgin packages.

 

Its primary use is the on-demand feature for kids TV, and the occasional film when there's nothing on Freeview.

 

I've used and seen it myself. When you've binged on the top stuff, you find there's very little new added to satisfy your demand, and you're flicking through the movies going "seen it", "seen it", "rubbish" etc.