Doctor Who tops BBC iPlayer views

In message , Agamemnon
wrote

More viewers are watching programmes on demand

British viewers are abandoning the television schedules, creating a boom for
programmes downloaded on demand, a survey has found.

More than a third are now watching programmes on demand regularly through
web media players,


The BBC said more than 3.5 million programmes had been streamed or
downloaded in the fortnight after Christmas Day, with more than one million
people visiting the iPlayer site.

1 million people in 14 days = 71,428 people a day. If 71,428 people
represent a third of British viewers then only 214,000 people watch TV
each day (or around 0.4 percent of the population) !

Lets take a more realistic figure. Let's say that 20 million people
watch TV each day and according to the BBC figures 71,428 people a day
visit the download site.

This equates to more like 0.35 percent of British viewers downloading
programs on a regular basis and not 33 percent as reported.

If the take up rate were as high as 33 percent I would expect to see ISP
prices rising. The pricing policy for the cheaper ISP accounts has
previously been based on a fairly low _average_ user download/upload -
often on a single figure Gbyte usage a month. If the downloads of the TV
programmes were of the same quality as the BBC transmits on Freeview
then it would only take the download of a few episodes of Dr Who to
reach these limits. (Typical BBC programme on Freeview = 2Gbytes/hour)
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Alan
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"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , Agamemnon
wrote

More viewers are watching programmes on demand

British viewers are abandoning the television schedules, creating a boom
for
programmes downloaded on demand, a survey has found.

More than a third are now watching programmes on demand regularly through
web media players,


The BBC said more than 3.5 million programmes had been streamed or
downloaded in the fortnight after Christmas Day, with more than one
million
people visiting the iPlayer site.

1 million people in 14 days = 71,428 people a day. If 71,428 people
represent a third of British viewers then only 214,000 people watch TV
each day (or around 0.4 percent of the population) !

Lets take a more realistic figure. Let's say that 20 million people watch
TV each day and according to the BBC figures 71,428 people a day visit the
download site.

This equates to more like 0.35 percent of British viewers downloading
programs on a regular basis and not 33 percent as reported.

If the take up rate were as high as 33 percent I would expect to see ISP
prices rising. The pricing policy for the cheaper ISP accounts has
previously been based on a fairly low _average_ user download/upload -
often on a single figure Gbyte usage a month. If the downloads of the TV
programmes were of the same quality as the BBC transmits on Freeview then
it would only take the download of a few episodes of Dr Who to reach these
limits. (Typical BBC programme on Freeview = 2Gbytes/hour)

As I said earlier, it not the BBC that the people are getting the programmes
from but the Torrent sites. A typical TV programme like Doctor Who is only
350MB. So lets say the Torrent sites are getting 32% of the viewers and the
broadcasters are only getting 1% on their copyright protected sites.


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Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:06:58 -0000, "Ian Salsbury"
wrote:


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
o.uk...
Seems to me that a lot of people would welcome the return of vhs video
machines with timer recording. The dvd equivalents seem over complex to
many people I talk to,

Virtually everyone I know has a set top digital box, I don`t know anyone
that uses a DVD recorder. They`re the easiest things in the world to use,
you highlight the programme you want to record and press a button!



I do and I wouldn't be without it. I need a DVD player anyway so why
not have a recorder and eliminate the need for yet another set top
box.

"Stephen Wilson" writes:

So what do you do if you want a permanent copy? What happens if you want to
watch it anywhere than on your own set-top box?

You either download the file to your computer or you have a DVD recorder
in the SCART chain and burn a DVD while playing back from the DVR.

"Wayne J. Kinsella" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:06:58 -0000, "Ian Salsbury"
wrote:


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
. co.uk...
Seems to me that a lot of people would welcome the return of vhs video
machines with timer recording. The dvd equivalents seem over complex to
many people I talk to,

Virtually everyone I know has a set top digital box, I don`t know anyone
that uses a DVD recorder. They`re the easiest things in the world to use,
you highlight the programme you want to record and press a button!



I do and I wouldn't be without it. I need a DVD player anyway so why
not have a recorder and eliminate the need for yet another set top
box.

Because my set top box is also my freeview box.

"Wayne J. Kinsella" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:06:58 -0000, "Ian Salsbury"
wrote:


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
. co.uk...
Seems to me that a lot of people would welcome the return of vhs video
machines with timer recording. The dvd equivalents seem over complex to
many people I talk to,

Virtually everyone I know has a set top digital box, I don`t know anyone
that uses a DVD recorder. They`re the easiest things in the world to use,
you highlight the programme you want to record and press a button!



I do and I wouldn't be without it. I need a DVD player anyway so why
not have a recorder and eliminate the need for yet another set top
box.

Well I have a DVD/video recorder and it's easier to switch to VCR mode and
record with a blank tape if something is just starting. You need to format
the blank DVD's and if it's getting a bit full, you can't just record over
like a tape. You have to select and delete each recording.

It has to be said though that even the long play DVD has a better picture
than the best quality VCR recording.

Excellent for transferring old home movies to DVD though, which is the main
reason that I got it.

Nod

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http://www.who3d.co.uk/

Looks to me BBC should have never pulled DW in the 1990s.
It was 1989.

When was Season 26 aired?
November-December 1989. Definitely the 1980s.

"The Doctor" wrote in message
...

Looks to me BBC should have never pulled DW in the 1990s.

Looks to me that if the BBC had not pulled DW in the 1990s there would have
been no DW in the 2000s.

Would you really have wanted to see another few years of Sylvester McCoy
produced by JNT? Made by a corporation that had no money, limited computer
technology and had fallen way behind in the field of special effects?

In article ,
Stephen Wilson wrote:

"The Doctor" wrote in message
...

Looks to me BBC should have never pulled DW in the 1990s.

Looks to me that if the BBC had not pulled DW in the 1990s there would have
been no DW in the 2000s.

Would you really have wanted to see another few years of Sylvester McCoy
produced by JNT? Made by a corporation that had no money, limited computer
technology and had fallen way behind in the field of special effects?



So drop JN-T as the producer.
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Alberta! Time for a change and beware Alliance in PC clothing. Vote Liberal!

Or you could turn of the telly and get a life

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they start to question and analyze every belief that they ever held dear. If
a certain belief passes the tests of evidence, deduction, and logic, it
should be kept. If it doesn't, the belief should not only be discarded, but
the thinker must also then question why he was led to believe the erroneous


"The Doctor" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Stephen Wilson wrote:

"The Doctor" wrote in message
...

Looks to me BBC should have never pulled DW in the 1990s.

Looks to me that if the BBC had not pulled DW in the 1990s there would
have
been no DW in the 2000s.

Would you really have wanted to see another few years of Sylvester McCoy
produced by JNT? Made by a corporation that had no money, limited
computer
technology and had fallen way behind in the field of special effects?



So drop JN-T as the producer.
--
Member - Liberal International
This is Ici
God, Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! On March 3rd,
Alberta! Time for a change and beware Alliance in PC clothing. Vote
Liberal!