My wife was asking me about when the latest series of the Killing (aka Forbrydelsen, meaning The Crime) was going to appear on BBC Four.  Alas, that is yet to come, but the Radio Times has announced that more Nordic Noir will be hitting the airwaves soon.  The only one of these new series with [...]

At this point, I’m going to try to tie together the thoughts I’ve mentioned in the previous three posts to try and come up with a coherent whole. 1) The BBC is a public broadcasting service The major problem with this one is who exactly is the public and who exactly funds it. The BBC [...]

Once again, to recap, Three of the BBC’s public purposes as set out in its Royal Charter are: Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK Delivering to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services. In the first of these [...]

I want to reiterate some things I mentioned in Part I of this: Two of the BBC’s public purposes as set out in its Royal Charter are: Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK In Ye Olden Dayes, the BBC Motto was [...]

If you have access to the Internet, then you can receive BBC Television whilst it is being broadcast from anywhere in the world (despite what the BBC, or TV Licence Resisters such as Peter, would like to admit). Of course, if you want to be legal, then you can’t watch it whilst actually being broadcast. Or [...]

Everyone will tell you that you need a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it’s being broadcast. Watching while during broadcast includes the use of devices such as a computer, laptop, mobile phone or DVD/video recorder. It isn’t really enough to say that you don’t watch as a programme is broadcast–there [...]

The title from this post comes from the World Services int signal, but it seems quite appropriate.  Two of the BBC’s public purposes as set out in its Royal Charter are: Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK In Ye Olden Dayes, [...]

I thought about adding this to my previous post, but it is more of a comment made in jest than one with any serious value–the BBC could adopt the same model as US Public broadcasting–with fundraisers and “underwriting”.  Of course, that wouldn’t go over very well since people already pay TV licence fees.  Additionally, I [...]

This is a longer version of the comment I left at the BBC website. Unfortunately, they only allow 350 characters, which is almost two whole tweets! That is not enough to leave a proper comment on this subject. OK, I’ve said that the Beeb should begin charging for BBC iPlayer, not totally in jest. The [...]

OK, my vie sans frontiers prefers to not have my information blocked by geographic and other details.  I was a real short wave fan when I was a teen.  Short Wave in those days was really entertaining since it was during the Cold War.  Radio Tirana in Albania was my fav back then for what [...]

I have to admit that I now use Ubuntu pretty much whenever I can, but the latest get_iplayer Digest has made me realise that it makes sense to use a linux based OS for that programme.  The error message one recieves when using the windows version reiterates that fact: WARNING: Stream does not start with [...]

An addition to my last post, The BBC should have some way to comment about the quality of the BBC iPlayer material. In particular, the video, sound, download, etcetera.

I am going to come straight out and say that I have disliked the official iPlayer programme since it became “user unfriendly” due to various attempts at DRM. For the most part, I prefer to use the third party programmes such as get_iplayer and the now defunct ipdl.exe for their flexibility. I do use the [...]

A while back, I had a previous post about Anna Nicole The Opera, which is an opera based on the life of the American Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith performed at the Royal Opera House. The same person who was involved with Jerry Springer the Opera had a part in creating this. While it does [...]

In case you missed it, this is the big news in the iPlayer community. I do have to admit agreeing with the Inquirer’s comment that “Middle class, middle aged people will be outraged that the great unwashed’s commercial telly has found its way onto the BBC’s Iplayer, and Youview might be worried too.” Part of [...]