BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

[Geoff Smith]

Do we not have a moderator who can put a stop to the verbal diarrhoea
of this off-topic thread?
At very least, will the perpetrators please take it off-group!

Geoff Smith

On 16/05/2016, C E Macfarlane <c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
> Please see below for further OT discussion, otherwise please ignore ...
>
> www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html
>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org]On
>>     Behalf Of Jim web
>>     Sent: 16 May 2016 13:53
>>     To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>>     Subject: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to
>>     watch to catch
>>     up with their favourite shows
>>
>>
>>     In article
>>     <PHEAIHCMJKHMHMOFBPOGGEDLCOAA.c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk>,
>>        C E Macfarlane <c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>     > :-(	The number of recent BBC changes that have broken
>>     or withdrawn
>>     > 	THEIR OWN services such as iPlayer even on
>>     comparatively recently
>>     > 	purchased consumer equipment tells you that
>>     habitually they fail
>>     > 	to plan ahead.
>>
>>     Or that the makers of said "consumer equipment" fail to keep
>>     up having been
>>     given opportunities to be informed/involved. The BBC don't
>>     make or sell
>>     smart TVs, etc. They *have* had discussions, etc, with makers
>>     in advance
>>     about iplayer changes. If the BBC had never changed until all
>>     the makers of
>>     'smart' (sic) TVs, 'net' radios, etc, did we'd probably still
>>     be stuck with
>>     low-rate WMA and Flash.
>
> You've raised this before, and you were as wrong then as before.  The BBC
> seems to be living in the past of twenty or more years ago where what it
> said, happened, but everyone else can see that this is no longer the case.
> The UK audio-visual equipment market is now a tiny drop in a global ocean,
> and no manufacturer can be expected to be continually making adjustments to
> their equipment for the sole benefit of the BBC and/or UK consumers.  The
> NUMBER, note that particular word, of changes introduced by the BBC over
> recent years that have broken consumer equipment is way beyond what any
> global manufacturer can reasonably be expected to allow for.
>
>>     But once again, you're using this list for purposes different
>>     to why it is
>>     provided.
>
> As are you, and, worse still, you are going over ground that has been more
> than adequately covered before.
>
>
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