johnman said:
Gildan Bladeborn said:
Ha ha ha ha ha, oh man, that is hilarious. Thanks internet! Now whenever I bemoan America's ass-backwards broadband service, I'll have the consolation that at least we don't make our citizenry pay for "the ability to receive television broadcast signals, even if it's just over the internet". Cable or satellite, sure, but broadcast? Next you'll tell me you have a radio license fee, can't have the citizenry operating car stereos without a license!
[small]Oh man will I be laughing if you do in fact have one of those too.[/small]
But that License goes to towards paying for Tv shows whihc can only be seen on the BBC(some of which are excellent) advert free TV, radio, news and online media player.
Its not just some random license you have to pay just to own a TV, you do see benefit from it. You have no idea how nice it is to not have to put up with shitty adverts every 15 minutes.
Actually I do, because (and this is key here)
nobody actually watches live television here anymore - if you tell somebody you watch live TV where I live we will look at you funny and then ask why you don't have a DVR. Because we all have those - commercial breaks last for only as long as it takes me to press the skip forward button until the show is back on, without so much as an annoying jingle to be heard. Plus I don't have to sit down while shows are actually airing, and if I ever
do want to for some inexplicable reason watch a show live that I don't have set up to record, I can just press the pause button, go do something else for a while, and come back whenever I like because the DVR lets me pause live TV.
DVRs totally rock. Also the figures I'm seeing bandied about are suggesting you pay more for broadcast television than I'm paying for my broadband and cable service combined.
