By: emsquared

emsquared — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:54:53 +0000

I’m a regular iPlayer user especially for radio. No doubt the Beeb will push to end the anomaly that allows iPlayer catch-up content to not require a TV license (for me it’d be cynical to watch content without supporting the license fee that helped fund it. That way lies only the narrowness of vision that is Sky IMHO).We use our PVR a lot too and regularly record whole series which are often not watched until the series has been and long gone.I watch less and less live television these days so on demand suits me very well though on the whole they’re all played back mostly onto the family telly. The barriers to truly global content are the same licensing headaches that give rise to the frustrations that streaming music listeners & legal downloaders often meet so TV wise that’ll probably take a lot longer to sort out but if there’s a revenue stream the industry will find a way.

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By: emsquared