| There is a forthcoming launch of a netflix style service that features BBC and ITV content... for a fee. It isn't clear exactly what will be included. Rumour has it that iplayer content will be transferred to Britbox over time. |
Britbox - BBC and ITV do a Netflix
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI'll be fucked if I'm paying another subscription -
neilka 24,021 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDritbox more like -
BigOrkWaaagh 10,554 posts
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Registered 14 years agoUgh, forget it. Sure, monopolies are bad, but if I could just pay one sub to watch everything I want rather than every company setting up their own streaming service that would be great. -
Drakesmoke 896 posts
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Registered 7 years agoDepressingly, coverage of this story on FB has resulted in comments sections filled by 'are tommy' types. -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIf I want reruns I'll just keep Dave. -
It's not actually called Britbox though is it?
Is it? -
BigOrkWaaagh 10,554 posts
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Registered 14 years agoKnuttinAtoll wrote:
Yeah it is, it already exists in the States.
It's not actually called Britbox though is it?
Is it? -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIf the original material they're hoping will draw in paying punters is dross like Luthor, Sherlock or Merlin I can't see it being successful in any way. -
BigOrkWaaagh wrote:
Presumably with a Union Jack theme applied to the box?
KnuttinAtoll wrote:
Yeah it is, it already exists in the States.
It's not actually called Britbox though is it?
Is it? -
SolidSCB 16,771 posts
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Registered 12 years agoMy first thought was "Oh, that's a reasonably cool way of making the TV Licence fee seem a little bit easier to stomach".
Oh, how foolish of me. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoEvery episode of eastenders, now that’s a fucking marathon -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI think it’s great, everyone wanting to chip away at Netflix. BBC and Disney setting up their own things I’ll never pay for, then there’s nothing on Netflix so I can cancel that too -
Anyways, saw an ad I mean report on BBC News on this earlier this week. Maybe for those living abroad who can't access iPlayer (without VPN) it might be worthwhile.
Am definitely not one of them though as it doesn't seem right to charge for something that was free in the past. Plus Netflix has me covered already. -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoDrakesmoke wrote:
That's cos he's teaming up with Momentum to smash the biased left-liberal-right-wing bias the BBC has against the common racist/socialist
Depressingly, coverage of this story on FB has resulted in comments sections filled by 'are tommy' types. -
richardiox 10,097 posts
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Registered 17 years agoEastEnders exclusive -
Psiloc 6,366 posts
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Registered 14 years agoMeh. But £5 ain't that bad.
In regards to the "it was previously free" comments, iPlayer and ITV Player have both been pretty shite for library content; they're designed for catch-up pretty much exclusively. I'm assuming this is meant to fill that hole. And there would be quite the infrastructure cost to offer all that up so hence the cost.
It would be preferable from a customer standpoint if they just put all this content on Netflix or Amazon or whatever though? -
JYM60 19,085 posts
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Registered 15 years agoBut BBC and ITV are both complete crap....
Only ever watch things on the channel 4 catch-up service. But if I'd to pay for it, then I wouldn't even bother. -
challenge_hanukkah 14,394 posts
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Registered 8 years agorichardiox wrote:
Eldorado exclusive -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMy iPlayer usage drastically dropped off when they started forcing me to sign-in. I don't have to if I use it via the skybox, but I can't seem to skip it when through roku, PC etc.
I'm with Load on this, it'll be filled with dross. -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agochallenge_hanukkah wrote:
Ok, I take back everything I just said.
richardiox wrote:
Eldorado exclusive -
Decks 31,013 posts
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Registered 6 years agoBBC make a few decent things but considering they make about 4 billion a year off the TV licence they can get to fuck charging a further subscription to get access to it. -
alt-cmd-esc 713 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThe only good thing about this new service is that it will hopefully hasten the end of the anachronistic licence fee and force the BBC to fund itself as all other commercial channels have to. It will be particularly amusing if this happens as a result of an ill-advised venture that the BBC themselves came up with (Britbox).
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b-rk 1,709 posts
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Registered 3 years agoI wouldn't pay 50p to watch either of those. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agosport wrote:
I can’t use it any more on virgin media, the sign in via your phone doesn’t work. Means I can’t stick on CBeebies now
My iPlayer usage drastically dropped off when they started forcing me to sign-in. I don't have to if I use it via the skybox, but I can't seem to skip it when through roku, PC etc.
I'm with Load on this, it'll be filled with dross. -
JamesUK 910 posts
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Registered 9 years agoDoctor Who, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Sherlock, Luther, Peaky Blinders plus a load of other BBC stuff is currently available on Netflix. I guess all that will disappear when Britbox launches.
No one's going to migrate from Netflix and few people will want to pay for an additional service. Anyone without Netflix probably watches plenty of terrestrial tv and has already seen everything they want to watch. -
dmj 1,081 posts
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Registered 17 years ago"Ooh, 'Allo! 'Allo! on demand!" said nobody ever.
As folk have already pointed out, it's just going to further fragment stuff. The best thing about Netflix (and Amazon to a lesser extent) is that everything you want is in one place. BBC/ITV/Apple/Disney deciding to launch their own services is going to just piss most people off.
Or are folk going to pay £8.99 per month for each service, on top of the licence fee and SKY/Cable? -
Good luck to them, hopefully they do pull all their content over to their own online service.
It's easier to avoid their thoroughly worthless programming when it's all corralled off in one place.
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