Should there be a compulsory Netflix licence?

Malthusian

MisterMotivated wrote: »

I think this is one industry where competition is a bad thing. For me to watch the few things I do want to, I’d have to pay for Sky, BT Sport AND Amazon Prime

They usually consolidate. I don't have cable TV any more but when I did I had both BT Sport and Sky, and if I wanted Amazon Prime (god knows why) I'd just have needed to pay extra. If there's only a few things you want you can get them off Now TV or DVD.

Most people with a Netflix subscription do not have anything in particular they want to watch. They want a giant tub of straight-to-DVD crap from which they can pick anything at random and listen to it make soothing noises e.g. "blah blah mr President the oil futures conspiracy blah" or "esh ish ein ander vermurder bork bork bork" while they drink wine, play on their smartphone or grope their partner. Something they want being on another service isn't a problem as they don't want anything in particular.

MisterMotivated

Malthusian wrote: »

They usually consolidate.

One example of my competition annoyance is live MotoGP, which used to be on a free to air channel, but now requires an expensive Bt Sport subscription. I’m not going to pay this since I don’t like football/golf, etc so I’ll just have to make do with highlights some days later

Malthusian

Perfect example. A quick Google says that if you only want MotoGP and no other sport, you can watch it on Now TV. Or put £10 in a Bet365 account and watch it via a tablet. So no, you don't require a BT Sport subscription.

MisterMotivated

Malthusian wrote: »

Perfect example. A quick Google says that if you only want MotoGP and no other sport, you can watch it on Now TV.

Yes, a perfect example. Watching via Now TV would cost me £6.29 per race. As above, it used to be live on free-to-air channels, but after BT spending squillions on buying the rights in order to gain new subscribers, even watching via NowTV, with 19 races in the season, it would cost me nearly £120 a year just for that.

Malthusian

If your complaint was that it used to be free but isn't any more then you should have said so. It would have saved me finding the wheresthematch.com link.

Your original complaint was that you couldn't watch MotoGP without paying for a subscription package which included football and golf, so I pointed out how you can.

When it was on free TV you didn't buy enough of the stuff shown in the ad breaks to allow that channel to continue affording MotoGP. That's not Sky's fault. (Or if it was on the BBC, it's no longer politically acceptable to get the taxpayer to subsidise you to watch motorbike racing.)

And besides it's still virtually free (minus the expected loss of eventually trying to get the £10 back out of Bet365). You only need NowTV to watch it on a proper TV without hooking a tablet up to the TV display.

metrobus

The sooner the biased,left wing propaganda machine that is the BBC is abolished the better for everyone.
Its only time since the general public are getting to know no one is obliged to pay the tax,because that is what it is.
Ive not had a license for about 10 years and no one need buy one,plenty on this on youtube,just take a look.

metrobus

ruperts wrote: »

Source for this claim?

I've seen very little resistance to the idea of abolishing it myself, especially among under-40's who are increasingly going without.

A quick look on youtube and the number of videos posted on why and how you do not need to pay for the BBCs propaganda tells us more and more are walking away from it.

Cornucopia

The BBC is, and always has been suspiciously vague about the numbers.

Chrysalis

Malthusian wrote: »

The only problem with this proposal is that even the BBC manages to produce better material than the straight-to-video absolute garbage on Netflix.

The BBC produces just enough quality stuff that appeals to every demographic to make the population as a whole resistant to the idea of abolishing it.

90% of my content is from netflix, in my view its generally of better quality then the BBC.

The bbc's focus is now mostly on news type stuff and eastenders.

They considering getting rid of radio channels and the bbc news channel also which I think are the best things about the bbc, not bbc one.

Chrysalis

metrobus wrote: »

The sooner the biased,left wing propaganda machine that is the BBC is abolished the better for everyone.
Its only time since the general public are getting to know no one is obliged to pay the tax,because that is what it is.
Ive not had a license for about 10 years and no one need buy one,plenty on this on youtube,just take a look.

These type of posts always make me laugh.

Most of the UK press is right wing, so anything thats not right wing, tends to be labelled as left wing its funny.

I rather instead consider the BBC to just always support whoever is in power as after all it relies on them for its funding.

Its definitely not left wing. I have never seen the bbc write opinion articles stating they want everything renationalised and unions back at full power.