TV Global Iplayer coming next year

[cHodAX]

Welcome news for many but I am not sure how the whole subscription thing will work out...

Digital TV - News - Global BBC iPlayer to launch next year - Digital Spy

 

[Moriath]

hope we dont have to subscribe when we go abroad to use iplayer :/ maybe we can take our TV license number and use it to use iplayer abroad

 

[leviathane]

ye how the feck is that gonna work? our tv license going to pay for johnny foreigners to watch out tv shows. pfft

 

[Moriath]

they doing a month by moth sub for it if your foreign if you read

but bummer if you have to sub while your away even tho u pay at home

 

[Zenith.UK]

hope we dont have to subscribe when we go abroad to use iplayer :/ maybe we can take our TV license number and use it to use iplayer abroad

Sounds sensible actually.
I've been thinking for a while that the BBC might start using the TV licence as a means of verifying your eligibility to access their online services. The TV licence is *supposed* to be paid by every household with a TV, and is the BBC's income. In effect, the licence is your subscription to the Beeb.

 

[Aiteal]

ye how the feck is that gonna work? our tv license going to pay for johnny foreigners to watch out tv shows. pfft

It already does.
BBC America makes a very tidy profit and has done for a number of years showing nothing more than re-runs of BBC and even ITV/C4 shows.
It's not like the money it made came off your TV licence fee.

Then again, a few days of Fox news and other free US channels that seem to have more ad breaks for pills, cars, political parties and health insurance schemes, than names in the end credits make you think, the TV licence isn't such a bad thing.

 

[megadave]

ipad only for a while

 

[Ch3tan]

I love the way soo many people have posted without reading the article.

It's a subscription service, it pays for itself, and gives the BBC extra income.

 

[leviathane]

hahaha gonna be honest ye i couldn't be arsed to read the whole thing