Owen Smith wrote: > Which leads me back to why change it at all if it is hardly used? I'd > have thought the BBC were hoping it would die quietly due to lack of > use. I just said Internet radio Appliances such as Roberts radios do not use it - not that is hardly used. I believe small number of custom UK home audio vendors have a significant number of customers.
That said BBC planned Nitro API to take over the feed and that seemed not gone to plan - so they may be buying time and holding onto these "customer" rather than let them drift away. BBC may be looking around for other potential sources of revenue. I presume with the "login" process they are trying to provide a personalised service. DASH stream (TV & Radio) makes it much easier to insert ads so so there may be ways to get revenue from non UK and other classes of user of the feed since the subscription experiment a few years ago failed. All speculation and assumes there is a strategy behind the changes but one that we can't divine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106409 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
