Oh and while I'm grumping...
The only two TV programmes I pay my licence fee for (apart from the excellent In The Night Garden about which, more here soon) are Torchwood and Grand Designs. When are they both broadcast? 9pm on Wednesday evenings, on separate channels. Humph. Looks like I'll have to learn how to drive 4OD, or BBCiplayer, or something..
posted by Gill at
7:01 PM
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Or stay up until midnight on wednesday for the TW repeat on BBC 2... or watch it a week later at 7 on wednesday in the "specially ruined for prime time" version
Hurray, thanks! I was hoping someone would know something like that and be kind enough to tell me! I tried to watch Torchwood last night and had to turn it off because it scared Lyddie (and how do you explain CGI to a five year-old? Refer her to her teenage brother!) so we ended up with Grand Designs. Which was good.
the bbci player is excellent and needs no download. The 4od I put on my comp it slowed everything down even when it wasnt running. I removed it and later saw a web article warning people that it does slow your system down terribly
Yes, I liked the fact that there was no download too. I've been warned off 4od for another reason. Apparently it's not free?
The no-download player was added into BBCi VERY hastily after the complaints about their implementation of the download client.
The BBCi download client is the same one the 4Od and (iirc) the ITV player use the same software, which also turns your PC into a filesharing server to reduce the load on BBC servers, hence the bandwidth and cycle hogging.
SOME content on 4od is free, some isn't.
Oh I'm glad they did that Pete. I forgot to say, I watched the rest of Torchwood on BBCi in the end. I think I'll have to watch the rest of the series that way, to avoid upsetting Lyddie.
If 4oD worked as well and was free I'd watch that too. But bandwidth is often in short supply around here, so I think I'll avoid it for now.
So, do we think all TV will go the way of BBCi in future? I hope so.
Up until a couple of weeks ago, it was: there were some excellent websites offering torrented downloads of TV shows that got shut down: the shame was, most of their content was plain unavailable outside of second hand VHS....
A coupel of years ago, the BBC were talking about putting ALL their self generated content on the web for access by any licence payer at any time... including all archives.
then someone waved a cheque at them.
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