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Conclusion to what?
JamesB – 10 hours ago »
Conclusion to what?
My original post i.e. will FTA viewers become marginalised by the rise and rise of subscription TV. Is FTA on life support/borrowed time. As the coffers of the subscription providers get ever larger will they attract stars and resources away from FTA in order to make original content for the subscription services.
Will government step in as they have with some sports rights in order to protect them for FTA e.g. the crown jewels argument.
gomezz – 1 day ago »
JamesB – 23 hours ago »
gomezz – 16 minutes ago »
Am I doing something wrong? I cannot find anyway to play anything with the My5 app on my Android tablet?
I installed the iOS app to check it out. Can’t be used without registering so I dumped it.
I am registered and logged in and nothing is showing as playable. Going to Help and it seems to list loads of stuff (everything) as being not available due to rights.
Just looked into the app details and it says it needs Android 4.4 to run!
1) Why when other catch up apps (including its predecessor) run fine on 4.2?
2) WTF did it even bother installing without checking?
Got an old Hudl 1 that ain’t getting anymore OS updates but as long as it continues to run BBC iPlayer etc and Google Maps (and ITV Player for the 6 Nations rugby) I won’t be bothering to replace it. But if I was, I think a Nexus 7 or 9 seems to be the way to go avoid it being obsoleted like this after such a short time.
Quote:… will FTA viewers become marginalised by the rise and rise of subscription TV. Is FTA on life support/borrowed time. As the coffers of the subscription providers get ever larger will they attract stars and resources away from FTA in order to make original content for the subscription services.It’s more complicated than free vs pay. Most people now have a mixture, thanks to OTT, and the pay services all parasite on the content produced by the free services. And the underlying questions about platforms and delivery are up in the air and don’t look like being answered any time soon.
Quote:Will government step in as they have with some sports rights in order to protect them for FTA e.g. the crown jewels argument.Not likely, IMO.
gomezz – 38 minutes ago »
gomezz – 1 day ago »
JamesB – 23 hours ago »
gomezz – 16 minutes ago »
Am I doing something wrong? I cannot find anyway to play anything with the My5 app on my Android tablet?
I installed the iOS app to check it out. Can’t be used without registering so I dumped it.
I am registered and logged in and nothing is showing as playable. Going to Help and it seems to list loads of stuff (everything) as being not available due to rights.
Just looked into the app details and it says it needs Android 4.4 to run!
1) Why when other catch up apps (including its predecessor) run fine on 4.2?
2) WTF did it even bother installing without checking?
Got an old Hudl 1 that ain’t getting anymore OS updates but as long as it continues to run BBC iPlayer etc and Google Maps (and ITV Player for the 6 Nations rugby) I won’t be bothering to replace it. But if I was, I think a Nexus 7 or 9 seems to be the way to go avoid it being obsoleted like this after such a short time.
The Demand5 app on my TV no longer plays any programmes. “Sorry! That doesn’t work” on every programme I try to play.
I don’t think My5 app has anything to do with version as I am running 5.1.1. on Android and nothing will play without registration. However, even on My5 website most of the content is listed as currently unavailable, a huge long list in fact.
Despite this content does still play using Demand 5 via my Humax 1000s.
So, despite saying you do need not need to register that is currently not the case, but even if you do, a lot of material is currently unavailable. I think I will give registering a miss as I never watch media either on my Tablet of Phone anyway.
I hazard a guess that the devices affected by the mysterious rights problem are the ones that are currently being updated from Demand5 to My5. They’ve perhaps toggled a “rights” flag while they take their time spraying the bugs.
Freetime boxes are perhaps not on the list for imminent upgrade. Which is good as it may be working by the time we get it.
Just to expand a little on our discussion re: FTA long term viability. Another strand to this argument is age demographic. I note whilst reading this morning about BBC Three now having gone online (BBC News website) the average age of a BBC viewer has now risen to 59.
Within that article there are more statistics about what younger people watch and listen to. Now whilst I fit quite nicely into the BBC demographic it does make one wonder what the future holds especially when you look at those viewing habits of younger people.
Faust – 11 hours ago » the average age of a BBC viewer has now risen to 59
Even taking into account all the CBeebies viewers? I find that hard to believe.
Worth bearing in mind that the BBC is not a free service.
As it stands the BBC *can* be used as an entirely free service: The radio services and iPlayer catchup do not need any payment.
That was my point, though I probably should have said “The BBC is not intended as a free service.”
BBC statements about viewer characteristics (such as age) may be based on their license-fee-holder database. CBeebie viewers and iPlayer-only viewers will not be on the database, but everyone over 75 probably is. Skews the results.
JamesB – 9 minutes ago »
That was my point, though I probably should have said “The BBC is not intended as a free service.”
BBC statements about viewer characteristics (such as age) may be based on their license-fee-holder database. CBeebie viewers and iPlayer-only viewers will not be on the database, but everyone over 75 probably is. Skews the results.
That is about to change I suspect, from my info later this year early next, then everyone will need the licence. iPlayer is an anomaly that should never have happened – re: licence fee.
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