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BBC to Try TV On Demand

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the optimum-test-markets dept.

Shevek writes "The UK Independent newspaper is reporting on a new BBC trial: 'Later this month, the BBC will launch a pilot project that could lead to all television programmes being made available on the internet. Viewers will be able to scan an online guide and download any show. Programmes would be viewed on a computer screen or could be burned to a DVD and watched on a television set. Alternatively, programmes could be downloaded to a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) ... By launching iMP, the BBC hopes to avoid being left at the mercy of a software giant such as Microsoft, which could try to control the gateway to online television.' Yet more proof that the BBC license fee is an unmitigated Good Thing(TM)."

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  1. Nanny State by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm convinced that all the real Brits were either killed in war or left for other countries. Come on Britain! Get rid of your nanny socialist state and join the rest of the Western world

  2. 10 per month per TV? Good thing? by krem81 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Give me a break. My total cable bill is less than that here in the U.S.

  3. Re:Feel free. by raidient · · Score: 0, Troll

    You Yanks are welcome. You have helped us enough in the past.

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  4. BBC is corporate power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    "Its largely English language services of course benefit the U.S. as much, if not more than they do the U.K. Perhaps all the more so given the ubiquity and uniformity of corporate media power on that side of the pond"

    And it is not so in the UK? The BBC is a corporation, too (check what the C stands for). Unlike the US media corporations, the BBC corporation is controlled by the government and the people are taxed to force to pay for it. Ugh.

  5. The Roman Empire is back by tepples · · Score: 0, Troll

    Britons haven't served a foreign ruler in such a capacity since the Roman Empire.

    Well, the Roman Empire is back, and the EU is part of it. You can visit the New Roman Empire's web site.

  6. BBC = division of british government. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    "The BBC is not a division of the UK government. It is under partial and indirect control of the UK state apparatus, but this is not the same thing."

    So, it is not a part of the government, but it is under government control and funded by a government tax and run under a government charter and has its management overseen and appointed by other government officials? Yeahh.....right. Whatever you say.