Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...
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illmonkey said:
Welshbeef said:
Randy Winkman said:
And I thought it was only on the BBC that people were "overpaid". 
Well one is 63m population the other is up to 7 billion... Now personally I do buy a fair amount of stuff from Amazon and am not a prime subscriber. I opt for the cheapest postage but have to wait longer. Given its free postage and much quicker given the globally accessible prime films shows (BBC cannot be viewed overseas nor can sky when on holiday which is a pain in the arse as we pay for the services) then £70-80 per year isn't bad at all + for me may mean that is cut down my sky package so net neutral cost personally but Amazon market share goes up.
As to those who post on an Internet forum about watching stuff online which is subscription only but find ways of never paying for it -- even if you do posting up such things when your IP address and PH if challenged would have to give up your full details isn't the smartest of ideas. Suggest you edit that post before someone.... Quotes it and it's here forever more.
. Randy Winkman said:
And I thought it was only on the BBC that people were "overpaid".
Amazon Prime isn't funded by holding most of the country to ransom by way of other live broadcasts (and Court) as per the licence fee, it's private money not effectively public money. This difference isn't difficult to spot. In the real commercial world there are greater risks than the BBC's position of bloat/incompetence/automatic intravenous drip-funding, so the rewards for success will be greater. Also, unlike the result of BBC screw-ups, if things go badly wrong then the show won't just roll on as usual without the inevitability of drip-fed licence fees masking failure. St John Smythe said:
otolith said:
I'm delighted at how much this must be annoying those who just want Clarkson muzzled and thought they'd got their wish. I hope it turns out that he's making a packet out of this.
I think you're posting on the wrong forum. None of us want that. 
k off then, can't they?
I can imagine the fallout if the BBC had to encrypt their TV & radio output to make it subscription based.
Anyone wanting to listen to Chris (how do you like your eggs..?) Evans would need a new radio, in the car you could probably receive it via your phone to your headset but I suspect few people would know how to do that.
When there was talk a few years ago about binning FM transmissions in favour of DAB/MP2 there was a huge fuss, this would be far more entertaining.
Anyone wanting to listen to Chris (how do you like your eggs..?) Evans would need a new radio, in the car you could probably receive it via your phone to your headset but I suspect few people would know how to do that.
When there was talk a few years ago about binning FM transmissions in favour of DAB/MP2 there was a huge fuss, this would be far more entertaining.
zygalski said:
If life elsewhere was so tremendously mind-bogglingly fantastic & futurefunkmungous, then why did the TG team all renew their good old BBC contracts last time around?
To be honest I would think this is because things like Netflix are now looking much more attractive than they did even a few years ago. At one point they were just services pushing old crap everyone's already seen. But now they're into making original content and its not just good original content for a first try, its good content full stop. House of Cards, Daredevil etc. Its fantastically well done. They're also getting quicker with getting new documentaries, films and series up for people to watch.Now that both Netflix and Amazon have shown that really high quality original content can be made and be successful...jumping ship now looks like a much more comfortable proposition. Remember some people are just risk averse; the BBC safety blanket and a nice wedge of £££? or possible swan dive into obscurity and failure trying to go it alone with a model that no-one really knows works yet but has the potential for many more £££?
I think plenty of people would choose the former. Money isn't everything, but its nice to have some.
The tools as well... Netlfix et al have shown that they posses the tools to make the kind of quality content that would once only be the reserve of the BBC or some other expensive subscription network (AMC, HBO etc).
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