Everyone lost in the Ether II

silvercar

harryhfp wrote: »

Good news if you have a place in the sun:


The BBC is planning to allow licence fee payers to access the iPlayer from abroad under new Brussels rules designed to create a single market for digital services.
Providers of subscription internet content including Sky, Netflix and Spotify will also be obliged to allow their viewers to use their services from anywhere in the EU.

The BBC said it would undertake a major technical overhaul of the iPlayer to ensure licence fee payers can log in to watch programmes while non-licence fee payers remain excluded. Currently it simply blocks access to all non-British internet addresses.

A BBC spokesman welcomed the EU’s proposals but said they required further clarification. The broadcaster took the opportunity to increase the pressure on the Government to close the so-called 'iPlayer loophole’ that allows viewers to watch catch-up programming without a television licence.

A spokesman said: “Being able to offer BBC iPlayer depends on the UK Government implementing legislation to modernise the licence fee… something the Government has committed to do next year.

“That will mean users of BBC iPlayer could be verified as UK licence-fee payers while they are on holiday in the EU.”

Excellent news. Saves faffing round with hiding IP addresses.

Don't see why it is restricted to EU, surely if you can watch overseas, you should be able to do so anywhere.

neas wrote: »

How you work out the avios value? I never really looked into it. So you can get £100 voucher with 20000 amex points or 20000 avios points.

Depends on how you use it. People generally suggest 1p per Avios is a standard rate.

We use them mainly for one long haul flight with a 2-4-1 in Business, calculating that to be about 2.5p per Avios.

Depends how many you can collect and how far you want to travel.

I should add a big warning for anyone thinking of starting to save Avios. It can be difficult to find availability. As well as having enough Avios, there has to be reward seats available. On some routes they are like gold dust, so don't think you can collect Avios and then next week book a flight to Sydney. Plenty of stories of people saving Avios for a year and then finding no flights that fit their schedule.
People have been known to change their intended destination to fit in with reward flights. On the other hand you could book 355 days in advance where they guarantee 2 reward seats on every flight.

harryhfp

cjj wrote: »

Serious question

1st works Christmas do in 20 years.
Thick black tights or legs please ? :rotfl: Tia xx

I suggest the real question should be: how short might my skirt be?


And the answer is: very short. It's Xmas.


Yeah, black stockings always sexy

MKS

hornetgirl wrote: »

I thought I'd gone from blonde to light brown recently, so told TS I had light brown hair prior to meeting at the IHS. She thought I couldn't be the right person as my hair was blonde, not light brown All relative I suppose lol.

It was blonde.

rhosynbach

Evening all hope the elite are well. Xx

Got a Philips air fryer from tesco on black Friday deal but its broke. Phoned them and they have no white in stock to exchange but have black, but they wanted me to pay £100 extra to change the colour.:eek::eek:

harryhfp

silvercar wrote: »

People have been known to change their intended destination to fit in with reward flights. On the other hand you could book 355 days in advance where they guarantee 2 reward seats on every flight.

Yes - you can just get up @ midnight on flight day -355 days to get your Avios flights, all other boggers are in bed so easy

rhosynbach

I know you lot know a bit about booze so I need a cheap bottle of single malt whiskey for a present, so is all whiskey the same and where do I look please . thanks xx

Munqui

harryhfp wrote: »

Couple of printers with points recently

Reselling or returning?

harryhfp

rhosynbach wrote: »

I know you lot know a bit about booze so I need a cheap bottle of single malt whiskey for a present, so is all whiskey the same and where do I look please . thanks xx

New T a/c with the £15 off £60, C&C, send back the rest?

hornetgirl

MKS wrote: »

It was blonde.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

harryhfp

Munqui wrote: »

Reselling or returning?

Sell'em on