Sorry for the delay in replying but I've had a toothache!
Right... You can divide the kind of material that is currently shown on television into five broad types: - "True live", which a content that is actually live, or is non-archive material introduced by live presentation. This would be the news and weather on most channels, live events such as sport and music and so on. The value of the content is related to common experience or to the "breaking news" . - "As live" is content that is produced, recorded and edited as if it were broadcast live, but has actually been produced beforehand. Such programmes are usually produced in quantity and to a "format" which - "Commissioned" programmes covers the large part of factual and drama programmes. - "Import" programmes are bought from TV networks abroad. - "Archive" programmes are programmes of the above types that have been show before. Putting on my futurologist hat: TRUE LIVE "True live" will remain in the on broadcast TV. For the BBC this means streaming of BBC News 24 and BBC World. On the "live" sports side, this will remain the only existing pull for subscription TV, as is already the only service that Sky operates that has not lost almost all the viewers. Online "live sport" will either be provided by IPTV with spot-adverts, live streams (BBC Sport). Some formats such as talent shows will probably also be constructed for the "live buzz". AS LIVE Much of this kind of entertainment material is produced for broadcast television and will probably continue to be pumped out over satellite, cable and terrestrial services. But as the "shared live experience" is fake, then these programmes will be eventually be pumped into on-demand services, vodcasts and so on. Current examples are "Have I Got News For You" and "Watchdog". Most of these formats have daily or weekly episodes which have little resale value. COMMISSIONED This area covers the majority of content. In the past, these programmes are scheduled, but without the linear form of traditional TV, such material will be consumed "on demand". If the BBC has any sense, all such material should be made available to any organization that will encode and distribute it as long as they make no edits and take no credit. The BBC, as a "premium originated content" broadcaster produces material that has a range of resale values. IMHO the BBC should stick all educational content online with immediate effect, unless there is a good reason for not doing so. Obviously most people would also like entertainment and comedy formats to be included, but these have much higher potential resale value and will probably have to wait until later. It is my opinion that the BBC should collect usage information from distributed video and have a fixed annual fund to compensate those who write, contribute and perform for the programmes. IMPORTS Once the world moves broadcasting in to cyberspace, Imports on TV channels will disappear. What is the point in waiting six months to watch a new Simpson's on Sky One (or years onto C4) if you can download it from the US minutes after broadcast. This is not much of a problem for the BBC as it has very little imported programming these days, but it may see the eventual death of BBC non-domestic channels (other than BBC World). The foreign sales of formats will no doubt continue, and there will be a market for subtitled and dubbed non-English content. ARCHIVE The value of programmes from the archive will fall because the costs of storage and distribution fall towards zero. Eventually it would be desirable to have every single programme the BBC has ever broadcast to be in an archive. To me the value of transmitting our culture abroad outweighs the cost of lost archive sales. On 14/06/07, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
I've been thinking about products and services like this for a while, and want to ponder this question to the backstage community... We've been talking about how DRM doesn't work, etc in other posts. Well lets just say for this thread that DRM doesn't work and it just turns consumers into against the content holder. ...What happens next? Here's some thoughts from me, Content producers adopt watermarking technologies? P2P streaming and Multicasting becomes the next big advance for content producers People start paying for real time or 0day access? Google and Yahoo start indexing torrent sites and offering services like sharetv.org Joost and Democracy adoption increases The portable video player and digital set top (appletv, xbmc, etc) markets blows up Torrent site uses slowly drops, as content producers use other online services Windows Home server (now you see how my last post relates) and similar products sales increase 10 fold over the next 3 year - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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