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"Your Freeview TV will lose 5 top channels this year as major change confirmed"

MikeSh said:
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion too fast. Never mind free stuff it is, or at least was in the past, paid for porn that was the biggest internet income stream. Paid for broadcast porn may be quite lucrative.
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I do not know if I am right as I have never paid to see but my assumption is that the paid porn on freeview is relatively softcore compared to the cheaper internet cam porn that is also viewable for free. Maybe someone brave enough here with experience can confirm if I am correct.
 
Owen Smith said:
But they're in SD and stereo sound at which point the streaming catchup options are on a par quality wise. I don't have any problems with buffering, streaming works fine for me it's just the reduced sound and picture quality for the terrestrial broadcasters that means I d on't use streaming more.
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I did not mean buffering when watching a show just all the clicks involved to get to a show and page loading time, I treat them like junk food, quality is not a concern and I want fast convenient food. As I said I am not really giving them my full attention anyway.
 
trog said:
As I said I am not really giving them my full attention anyway.
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So the advertisers (who pay for the channel) don't give a monkey's about you. (Not being rude - just saying how it is.)
They only care about people actively watching.
 
trog said:
Yes, I think they still get governed by Ofcom which leads me to assume they are far less raunchy that the internet alternatives. Is that not a fair assumption to make?
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They are behind a paywall, so provided what is shown is legal why would ofcom need to act?
 
MikeSh said:
They are behind a paywall, so provided what is shown is legal why would ofcom need to act?
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"In the UK, Ofcom classes TV programs that encourage viewers to call presenters live on a premium rate telephone number as advertisements. The regulations applicable to advertisements apply to these channels, rather than the rules for editorial content. This restricts what may be said and shown on-air on unencrypted channels more stringently than if the content were a normal program. However, regulation of adult TV channels has not been devolved to the Advertising Standards Authority. Ofcom regulates these channels directly"
 
trog said:
Ofcom regulates these channels directly
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Yes. But if the channel isn't doing anything unacceptable why would they (ofcom) need to act?
With a few exceptions porn is legal and a paywall means it is restricted to adults (or minors who have been illegally allowed that access by an adult). Advertising on those channels (if there is any) may still be subject to the regulations you mention, but that doesn't mean the content isn't hardcore.
 
MikeSh said:
Yes. But if the channel isn't doing anything unacceptable why would they (ofcom) need to act?
With a few exceptions porn is legal and a paywall means it is restricted to adults (or minors who have been illegally allowed that access by an adult). Advertising on those channels (if there is any) may still be subject to the regulations you mention, but that doesn't mean the content isn't hardcore.
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Do you really think that what Ofcom considers acceptable will be on par with internet cam sites? I certainly do not.

In 2010, Bang Media were fined £157,250 by Ofcom for screening "inappropriate explicit material" with "manifest recklessness" in the UK.[7]

In 2013, the UK Babestation switched to a channel license in the Netherlands, which led Ofcom to make a formal complaint to the Dutch regulator.
 
SemiRamis said:
What do you watch on bbc3
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At the moment I'm watching Domino Day which if memory serves is on BBC3. I'll admit I don't get a lot of use out of BBC3 these days. Prior to that I watched Fort Salem on BBC3 during covid lockdown, but that was when BBC3 was online only and I watched it in the late night slots on other BBC channels.
 
Owen Smith said:
At the moment I'm watching Domino Day which if memory serves is on BBC3
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Yes, us too. It's repeated on BBC 1 or 2 a few days later as well.
We've actually started 'bingeing' it on iPlayer now as I want to finish the series before I go away next weekend.

We don't watch as much from 3 as 1 and 2, but there's a couple of things most weeks. Some films pop up, but a lot of the stuff is for the younger generation.
 
MikeSh said:
We've actually started 'bingeing' it on iPlayer now as I want to finish the series before I go away next weekend.
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I only use iPlayer if I miss recording something with the HDR Fox T2. The iPlayer picture quality is worse than Freeview HD and iPlayer is only in stereo sound whereas Freeview HD provides 5.1 audio if the programme has it (except on ITV1 HD with it's knowingly "lowest common denominator" downmarket approach).
 
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