BBC Comments on 'Complex U.S. Market' for iPlayer Service

[JMcEntegart]

BBC reportedly having a tough time with US cable companies.

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[lahawzel]

iWishThisNamingFadWouldEndSoon

 

[jabliese]

Dear Cable, Phone, and Music companies.

Things change, go with the flow.

Thank you.

 

[silverblue]

iPlayer has been around for the best part of five years. It may take its inspiration from i-products, but it's certainly one of the most established examples.

In any case, if the licence fee were to be abolished, the BBC would find itself in a whole world of poop.

 

[irh_1974]

Apple are just sore they didn't think of iPlayer first, come to think of it they didn't thik of iPad, iPhone or iPod first, or Apple for that matter...

But back on subject, cable companies shouldn't feel threatened, BBC content doesn't compete across all levels and would be more akin to competing with Netflix, plus if they did it via a website I don't see how they can stop the BBC apart from getting the ISPs to block it.

 

[xerroz]

Cable companies, phone networks, record industry, movie studios - all holding innovation behind and going forward with greed instead.

 

[Guest]

Some of us have been waiting for iPlayer for well over a year now. It's depressing to think that cable companies are as idiotic as they are. Am I going to kill my cable when I can finally get my mitts on iPlayer? Heck yes. But what they don't get is that I'm going to do that anyway, iPlayer or no. BBC America is okay, but DirecTV can't even be bothered to offer it in HD, and half of what it shows are Star Trek: The Next Generation reruns. Not exactly a BBC production. Cable and satellite providers are just a bunch of stick-in-the-mud eejits.

 

[Guest]

The garbage/affordability ratio of U.S. cable and satellite is way too high. I cancelled my DirecTV long ago. Bring on the BBC iPlayer already!

 

[silverblue]

I did notice that certain programmes are not available on the iPlayer, i.e. Family Guy. Would this be the case for US subscribers as well?

 

[f-14]

serves them right too for charging for tv programming and making people pay to watch commercials.
i want them relegated to be nothing more than ISP's

 

[f-14]

Word on the street is that US cable companies threatened to drop BBC America out of fear a service like iPlayer would lure subscribers away.

ya cable providers are already getting their arses handed to them by domestic competition, if you throw in foreign competition they are sunk to being nothing more than an ISP.