• BBC announces new iPlayer, BBC One +1, coding education scheme, and some other stuff
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24442265[/url] [quote]The BBC is planning to launch a BBC One +1 channel, its director general Tony Hall has announced. Speaking at his first major speech since joining in April, Lord Hall said audiences expected a timeshift service that would give people "more of what they've already paid for". Other innovations he announced included a revamped, personalised iPlayer, offering a 30-day catch-up period. The service will also allow users to watch shows before they are broadcast. ... In a wide-ranging speech, Lord Hall announced the following innovations, although he noted the biggest changes would have to be submitted to the BBC Trust for approval: • The next generation BBC iPlayer, which will allow a "more bespoke" experience for every user. There will be a 30-day catch-up window, subject to approval. • Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016, the BBC will fully digitise its Shakespeare archive, making it available for free to those in education and learning in the UK where rights allow. • The corporation aims to double the BBC's global news audience from 250 million users a week to 500 million by 2022. • BBC Playlister, a new digital service that will allow listeners to pick and tag any piece of music they hear on the BBC and listen to it later. The corporation is working with streaming services so that listeners can keep all their favourite music in one place, listening to it • across whatever devices they have. • BBC Store, which will offer people in the UK the chance to buy, watch, and keep a selection of BBC programmes. • An extra 20% investment in arts programming, which will include a major new strand 'BBC Arts at…' that will showcase live performances from around the country. It will also relaunch The Space - the BBC's partnership with Arts Council England. • Open Minds, which will be a selection of carefully chosen packages featuring highlights from Radio 3, Radio 4 and The World Service. • Digital Creativity and Coding - a project to teach people how to programme computers, smartphones and a whole range of digital devices, due in 2015. • Building on its experience of covering the Olympics, the BBC will deliver live experiences to audiences made up of the best video, audio, text and statistics, across four screens - TV, computer, mobile and tablet.[/quote]
"30-day catch-up window" Finally I wont have to rush to watch something.
BBC could easily increase their foreign viewership, not just news, by making their programs more easily accessible for us. I wouldn't mind ads so long as I could watch any episode of e.g. Have I Got News For You without either searching for quickly taken-down Youtube accounts or relying on the diceroll of repeats.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42454199]BBC could easily increase their foreign viewership, not just news, by making their programs more easily accessible for us. I wouldn't mind ads so long as I could watch any episode of e.g. Have I Got News For You without either searching for quickly taken-down Youtube accounts or relying on the diceroll of repeats.[/QUOTE] They have a big conflict on interests with advertisers, I know on most of their shows they can't even show a can or billboard without blurring it. Maybe a pay subscription service? The problem is balancing it between the amount of content and being fair to the license fee payer who pays £145 a year. Would people pay $10 a month for access to the main BBC shows with regional and sporting content missing?
Every single piece of this is great.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42454199]BBC could easily increase their foreign viewership, not just news, by making their programs more easily accessible for us. I wouldn't mind ads so long as I could watch any episode of e.g. Have I Got News For You without either searching for quickly taken-down Youtube accounts or relying on the diceroll of repeats.[/QUOTE] Would you be willing to pay for it though? Also netflix US have a fairly good BBC Library
As long as I get to wake up to Susanna Reid every morning, I welcome any changes and improvements.
[QUOTE=benwaddi;42454264]They have a big conflict on interests with advertisers, I know on most of their shows they can't even show a can or billboard without blurring it. Maybe a pay subscription service? The problem is balancing it between the amount of content and being fair to the license fee payer who pays £145 a year. Would people pay $10 a month for access to the main BBC shows with regional and sporting content missing?[/QUOTE] I already pay for BBC entertainment that got included in my cable package, but it pretty much only shows Top Gear and QI (not bad per say), but i want stuff like Mock the Week, Sherlock, Dr Who, HIGNFY and much more I'd happily pay for quality BBC programs. Better then much of the local stuff here
[quote]Digital Creativity and Coding - a project to teach people how to programme computers, smartphones and a whole range of digital devices, due in 2015[/quote] this is the most exciting and important thing
why doesn't american PBS do this
[QUOTE=Aspen;42455072]why doesn't american PBS do this[/QUOTE] PBS lets you watch their shows online - [url]http://video.pbs.org/[/url]
Well holy shit, this seems like an entirely-positive overhaul. [editline]8th October 2013[/editline] [quote] • Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016, the BBC will fully digitise its Shakespeare archive, making it available for free to those in education and learning in the UK where rights allow.[/quote] God, fuck, I'll probably be out of education by that time.
[QUOTE=benwaddi;42454264]They have a big conflict on interests with advertisers, I know on most of their shows they can't even show a can or billboard without blurring it. Maybe a pay subscription service? The problem is balancing it between the amount of content and being fair to the license fee payer who pays £145 a year. Would people pay $10 a month for access to the main BBC shows with regional and sporting content missing?[/QUOTE] I'm sure if you access the BBC website outside the UK it has ads on it, why not tv shows?
[QUOTE=Arsonist;42455395]I'm sure if you access the BBC website outside the UK it has ads on it, why not tv shows?[/QUOTE] Because the license fee is meant to cover that and people within the UK would start bitching for no conceivable and no good reason.
[QUOTE=Arsonist;42455395]I'm sure if you access the BBC website outside the UK it has ads on it, why not tv shows?[/QUOTE] BBC Iplayer "cannot be used outside the uk" *cough*Unless you install mediahint first...*cough*
[QUOTE=Arsonist;42455395]I'm sure if you access the BBC website outside the UK it has ads on it, why not tv shows?[/QUOTE] Yeah seems the iPlayer for abroad does do ads but only features a limited range of content. Radio shows are mostly up in full though. Might be down to contracts about on demand content and royalties, that's why MOTD is always fucked up even in the UK. It would be nice for a expanded service for those abroad but having current content means they would need to charge quite a lot for advertisers. If in the UK its £145 to even use the BBC iPlayer people would start complaining that everyone else gets it free and we have to pay that much for content made and paid for mostly by us.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42454199]BBC could easily increase their foreign viewership, not just news, by making their programs more easily accessible for us. I wouldn't mind ads so long as I could watch any episode of e.g. Have I Got News For You without either searching for quickly taken-down Youtube accounts or relying on the diceroll of repeats.[/QUOTE] Its a minefield of licensing issues. Maybe not so much with original(ish) programming (like hignfy) but it still plays a small part. They are still made by third party companies who have agreements in other places.
[QUOTE=benwaddi;42455800]Yeah seems the iPlayer for abroad does do ads but only features a limited range of content. Radio shows are mostly up in full though. Might be down to contracts about on demand content and royalties, that's why MOTD is always fucked up even in the UK. It would be nice for a expanded service for those abroad but having current content means they would need to charge quite a lot for advertisers. If in the UK its £145 to even use the BBC iPlayer people would start complaining that everyone else gets it free and we have to pay that much for content made and paid for mostly by us.[/QUOTE] A significant thing is the fact that the BBC has a blanket agreement with the music industry, which means programme-makers often take advantage of this (to say no ill of such things) and getting rights for songs in more than one country is a fucking NIGHTMARE of copyright. Copyright and royalty laws are voodoo.[B]dark, spooky voodoo.[/B]
Hopefully they won't stuff the new +1 channel on the SD multiplex on Freeview, another channel will degrade the already DVD quality of the existing channels, or the empty HD slot on the HD one either.
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