Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...
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eccles said:
Vincefox said:
f
k the bbc.
fk their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.
They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both fking hands.
fk them and fk paying for them. fking s.
And despite all those faults, the BBC is still better than ITV!k the bbc.f
k their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both f
king hands.f
k them and fk paying for them. fking s.
Rumour has it that the BBC is going to provide permanently available lifestyle content on iPlayer for their fellow Labourite travellers. In keeping with Party characteristics, it'll cover the essential centralised kommand and kontrol information needed by a faithful, credulous dependent Labour voter. The infinte loop will play "breathe in, breathe out, breathe in..." using the dulcet tones of Gordon Brown. Clarkson declined the gig.
turbobloke said:
eccles said:
Vincefox said:
fk the bbc.
fk their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.
They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both fking hands.
fk them and fk paying for them. fking s.
And despite all those faults, the BBC is still better than ITV!k the bbc.f
k their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both f
king hands.f
k them and fk paying for them. fking s.Rumour has it that the BBC is going to provide permanently available lifestyle content on iPlayer for their fellow Labourite travellers. In keeping with Party characteristics, it'll cover the essential centralised kommand and kontrol information needed by a faithful, credulous dependent Labour voter. The infinte loop will play "breathe in, breathe out, breathe in..." using the dulcet tones of Gordon Brown. Clarkson declined the gig.
Yup, shows like that certyainly knock that old lefty BBC into a cocked hat!otolith said:
eccles said:
And despite all those faults, the BBC is still better than ITV!
That's a low bar you're setting, leprosy of the genitals is better than ITV, but plenty of people seem to watch it anyway. Can't say there's much on ITV1 or BBC1 that interests me tonight. turbobloke said:
Rumour has it that the BBC is going to provide permanently available lifestyle content on iPlayer for their fellow Labourite travellers. In keeping with Party characteristics, it'll cover the essential centralised kommand and kontrol information needed by a faithful, credulous dependent Labour voter. The infinte loop will play "breathe in, breathe out, breathe in..." using the dulcet tones of Gordon Brown. Clarkson declined the gig.
otolith said:
Scuffers said:
in 5 years time, this will all be an irrelevance...
Not so sure about that. Death of commercial broadcast TV, maybe, which will force the BBC to be allowed to get its hand in the pockets of people who only watch streamed content. That's the big prize.like it or not, IPTV is going to take over, and with it, more and more people watching stuff on demand as opposed to live scheduled stuff, BBC will have to radically change.
this will be even more of a problem for ITV/Ch4/Ch5 as their current revenue models will be slaughtered.
otolith said:
Scuffers said:
in 5 years time, this will all be an irrelevance...
Not so sure about that. Death of commercial broadcast TV, maybe, which will force the BBC to be allowed to get its hand in the pockets of people who only watch streamed content. That's the big prize.TV on demand down the internet is the way forward and there are plenty of providers rushing to give it to us.
Can't be far away before the first smart television that doesn't bother including a tuner.
Don said:
otolith said:
Scuffers said:
in 5 years time, this will all be an irrelevance...
Not so sure about that. Death of commercial broadcast TV, maybe, which will force the BBC to be allowed to get its hand in the pockets of people who only watch streamed content. That's the big prize.TV on demand down the internet is the way forward and there are plenty of providers rushing to give it to us.
Can't be far away before the first smart television that doesn't bother including a tuner.
Scuffers said:
otolith said:
Scuffers said:
in 5 years time, this will all be an irrelevance...
Not so sure about that. Death of commercial broadcast TV, maybe, which will force the BBC to be allowed to get its hand in the pockets of people who only watch streamed content. That's the big prize.like it or not, IPTV is going to take over, and with it, more and more people watching stuff on demand as opposed to live scheduled stuff, BBC will have to radically change.
this will be even more of a problem for ITV/Ch4/Ch5 as their current revenue models will be slaughtered.
otolith said:
That's pretty much what I was getting at. The commercial broadcast providers will be most affected. The BBC will be less affected, because it extracts its funding with menaces. Eventually, though, people will opt out of broadcast TV altogether, which will free them from the licence fee. The BBC is already expressing concern about this phenomenon. That could mean that the licence fee dies. I think it more likely that it will in some way be extended to capture people who are currently exempt on the grounds of not receiving live to air content.
There will probably be an Internet license eccles said:
That's fine if you can get broadband with a usefull speed. Many, many places outside of towns and cities get really crap broadband.
That is gradually being addressed, and that process will continue. Broadband is gradually transitioning from an urban luxury to something which is regarded like mains power or piped water.eccles said:
That's fine if you can get broadband with a usefull speed. Many, many places outside of towns and cities get really crap broadband.
I'm in a village, fibre should be live by the end of September. One cabinet already done, 2 more to do. Obviously, outlying remote dwellings could be in a pickle, but I'd not be surprised if sattelite was not subsidised by central Gov't if the need was there. The BBC were trying to couple the internet and their "license fee" into the same box, prior to the 2010 election , its the way things are going, thats for sure. Thats what Browns tax on the telephone standard charge was about, I'll warrant.
otolith said:
eccles said:
That's fine if you can get broadband with a usefull speed. Many, many places outside of towns and cities get really crap broadband.
That is gradually being addressed, and that process will continue. Broadband is gradually transitioning from an urban luxury to something which is regarded like mains power or piped water.
We're already close to standard (2Mbps) broadband being available to all households, with the government target being 100% by next year. The target for high speed broadband is 90% for next year and 95% by 2017. There aren't going to be many people without the option of streamed TV by 2020.
otolith said:
We're already close to standard (2Mbps) broadband being available to all households, with the government target being 100% by next year. The target for high speed broadband is 90% for next year and 95% by 2017. There aren't going to be many people without the option of streamed TV by 2020.
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