Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-16 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 16 May 2016 at 16:01, Geoff Smith Geoff Smith wrote: > Do we not have a moderator who can put a stop to the verbal diarrhoea > of this off-topic thread? > At very least, will the perpetrators please take it off-group! > > Geoff Smith Here, here. Chris - list owner:

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-16 Thread Jim web
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Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-16 Thread Geoff Smith
Do we not have a moderator who can put a stop to the verbal diarrhoea of this off-topic thread? At very least, will the perpetrators please take it off-group! Geoff Smith On 16/05/2016, C E Macfarlane wrote: > Please see below for further OT discussion, otherwise

RE: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-16 Thread C E Macfarlane
Please see below for further OT discussion, otherwise please ignore ... www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On > Behalf Of Jim web > Sent: 16 May 2016 13:53 > To:

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-16 Thread Jim web
In article , C E Macfarlane wrote: > :-( The number of recent BBC changes that have broken or withdrawn > THEIR OWN services such as iPlayer even on comparatively recently > purchased consumer

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-15 Thread James Scholes
The BBC have spent many years building their streaming infrastructure, and that includes a huge amount of effort in recent years to: * Launch the BBC Nitro API; * Widely deploy HLS streamms; * Start deploying MPEG DASH streams, which still is not complete but is ongoing; * Build SAML-based

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-15 Thread Jonathan Larmour
On 14/05/16 20:36, Rob Wood wrote: > Have a look at this > > http://publicsectortenders.net/index.php?name=News=article=40256=PublicSectorTenders Oh dear. The fact the BBC are not doing it in-house, and instead choosing a tender specifically for the lowest bidder ("most economic tender"), makes

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-15 Thread S Carr
Enough. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

RE: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-15 Thread C E Macfarlane
Please see below for further brief OT discussion, otherwise please feel free to ignore ... www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On > Behalf Of Jim web > Sent: 15 May 2016 12:21 > To:

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-15 Thread Jim web
In article , C E Macfarlane wrote: > > -Original Message- From: get_iplayer > > [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Andy > > Gascoigne Sent: 14 May 2016 20:11 Cc:

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-14 Thread Andy Gascoigne
To be honest I am quite fed up with people who seem to think that they have a right to watch BBC programmes "free". Seriously how do they think these programmes are created, by the "magic BBC fairies"? It really should not matter *how* you watch it; you watch it you pay a licence fee, simple

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-14 Thread Ian Trimnell
A very interesting perspective. We don't have a TV license because we don't have a television nor do we watch live broadcasts on any computer or mobile device. This is all in line with the reasons set out on the form that TV Licensing send us every now and then. We only download, either

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-13 Thread SquarePenguin
Damn smart reply got me again... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:31 +0100 From: SquarePenguin To: Majid Hussain

Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

2016-05-13 Thread CJB
There is a large campaign at 38Degrees: NOTES: [1] The Times quote was on the front page of the paper yesterday. It is also on the internet but it is behind a paywall: The Times: BBC stars keep pay deals secret after government climbdown: