Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

2008/12/5 Richard Danter <radanter@???>:
> 2008/12/5 Alan Pope <alan@???>:
>> 2008/12/5 Stephen Rowles <stephen@???>:
>>> "The BBC does not charge you to use BBC iPlayer, nor does the current
>>> version require a television licence"
>>>
>>> Which I guess means they reserve the right to change that to require a
>>> license in the future as only the *current* version requires no license.
>>>
>>
>> Where "they" aren't the BBC.
>
> This is getting even more off topic, but...
>
> One thing that annoys me a little is that much of the media, specially
> the live media like news24, can only be viewed if you are connecting
> from a UK IP address.
>
> Now I guess this is because they want only UK residents, who they must
> be assuming mostly have a TV license, to watch it. Problem is that I
> *AM* a UK resident and I *DO* have a TV license but I also do a lot of
> travelling and being able to watch news24 from a hotel room elsewhere
> in Europe would be really nice but is not allowed.
>
> Would really have liked to hear more the other day while I was in my
> hotel room with no English TV and hearing some news about UK and US
> people being shot in some other hotels (I didn't know it was in India
> at the time).

Hit send too soon...

I was of course able to read about it, though I do find the adverts
annoying too.

>
> Guess my real point is that here is a service I am actually paying for
> (through my license fee) but which I am not able to use all the time I
> would like.
>
> Rich
>
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