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Wait what? The BBC's iPlayer was in this "streaming fight"? I thought it is only available in the UK and not anywhere else unlike the other players such as Net
by kgraves 7y ago
Wait what? The BBC's iPlayer was in this "streaming fight"?
I thought it is only available in the UK and not anywhere else unlike the other players such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
iPlayer doesn't seem nowhere near winning this "fight" against these players IMHO.
- mongol 7y agoThe article seems very UK-centric. As citizen of another coutnry living outside UK I would love to try to subscribe to BBC IPlayer. I think I would prefer it over Netflix, if the price was the same / similar.
- kgraves 7y agoWell there is Britbox[1] for folks outside the UK, formed by ITV & BBC. I've only known that they are now launching in the UK. [1] https://www.britbox.com/home https://www.britbox.com/home
- lvturner 7y ago* Only available in US and Canada Got excited for a moment there too :-(
- toofy 7y agoI would definitely drop one of the four services I currently have and trade up for BBC if they had a substantial catalog. Without a doubt I would do that, in fact, I now really want to see a service with that type of content. I didn’t even realize I wanted it until now...
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoUnfortunately commercial broadcasters in the UK (AKA Rupert Murdoch) would go apeshit if the BBC were allowed a commercial opportunity like this. This is the only thing preventing it from happening.
- Veen 7y agoIt's an article about a UK company in a UK newspaper. Look at it in that context.