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This is what OB has been going on about for the past few years. BBC and ITV have to make their mind up. Stay FTA or go online and stream. No halfway house of doing both. |
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To be fair, OB has been predicting the end of linear broadcast TV, with all the monotony of the bloke in sandwich boards outside the market, not the dangers of trying to have a foot in both camps.
It’s absolutely true though, you can’t expect people to pay the same for a library of things they’ve already seen for free as they pay for a library of new content. The only way Britbox can work is if it gets as much new content as Netflix gets. It can’t do that unless ITV decides to bankroll it - under its current charter its unlikely that the BBC would be allowed to do this even via BBC Worldwide, its commercial operation. |
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Incidentally, the reason I don my sandwich boards is to respond to the ridiculous and persistent protestations, without supporting links, that the linear channels will carry on forever. This is patently not true and I make no apology for setting the record straight on this. On your second paragraph, we agree. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/b...vertising.html |
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Bang on, OB.... |
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Setting the record straight ... roffle.
There is no record. There are predictions, generally made by those with an interest in seeing it happen. But we digress. |
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ITV have a history of failed ventures which have only been half baked and ultimately failed.
ITV Digital (ONdigital) ITV Sports Channel ITV News Channel To name but a few Britbox was started too early with a smaller catalogue of content and limited device availability with no proper testing before releasing apps FireTV is/was full of bugs and sign in issues. First impressions and all that. For the same price Disney+ will wipe the board with content as well as superior picture and sound quality from launch. As previous folk have said it’s original content that drives people to the streamers not recycled rubbish from years ago. |
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Also Disney+ had a lot of issues when it launched in the USA. You're in for a very big disappointment when Disney+ launches in uk. As for Britbox it have fail written all over it from day one everyone and his cat could see that. For the record i've been beta testing Disney+ and it aint all that. |
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I probably won’t subscribe to Disney+ personally as it’s not for me but the difference is they are throwing everything at it with exclusives from the offset. I’m glad to hear they are testing, we never heard much about Britbox beta testing and their apps certainly weren’t tested for long. I’m quite sure Disney+ in its testing format won’t have many if any of their upcoming exclusives on board yet. Britbox is full of stuff that has been recycled for years and is available elsewhere on the likes of Netflix and Prime who have a vast array of exclusives or even on ad supported platforms for free. |
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They did say there would eventually be shows commissioned exclusively for BritBox. It's risky launching the UK version without a few ready though, because once the perception of the service is that it's only old shows, it will be difficult to shift no matter how much you market it otherwise. Though Netflix managed it, despite still being full of old stuff.
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I would recommend taking up he trial just for the mandarian though but imo that is all that was worth watching on Disney+ It will be very interesting in a years time though when SKYs deal expires with Disney. |
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Britbox on the other hand is like opening a pub doing nothing except opening the door and hope some punters come in. They might stay for one or two but probably move on to the next one if there is nothing much happening. |
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