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Post by Del Boy on Nov 5, 2015 19:38:47 GMT
BBC Store Launches today Nov 5 Its a pay to download service starting with 6000 hours of content and the service will be similar to itunes. On launch the content available will be £1.89 per episode. I'm hoping that there will be stuff on here that has not and probably won't ever make it to a Dvd release. BBC Store Info
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Post by Sam Tyler on Nov 5, 2015 20:24:37 GMT
Thanks for the heads-up Del
I'll have to have a proper wade through it all to see what's on there.
There's one series of Ashes To Ashes but no Life On Mars, what are they trying to tell me?
Sam.
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Post by Del Boy on Nov 5, 2015 20:37:44 GMT
Apparently its most of the stuff thats been available via itunes ...to start with . The thing is if it's viable then they could make some rare stuff available to own for only 1.89 per episode. It could be a good thing.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Nov 5, 2015 20:37:57 GMT
That sounds good Del. I will definately have a look at the link. I presume we will be able to keep the downloads permanently ? Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 5, 2015 21:25:37 GMT
Thanks for the heads up Derek. I've had a look through the titles & as you might expect it's mostly very recent stuff. Of interest to 70's fans are ten Play For Today's including "Traitor" starring John Le Mesurier, £3.99 each. Hopefully they will add more archive stuff.
Charlie, yes they are downloads to own.
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Post by Del Boy on Nov 5, 2015 22:17:23 GMT
No Problems lads It makes sense for the beeb to move over to something like this service as the future will be all downloaded content in some form or other. People will more than likely have all their media on a networked solid state storage solution so as to be able to view or listen to it on any device, even in your car and abroad via the internet. I have always thought that the downloaded content should be cheaper than the other media options like cd dvd. Take itunes, @ 79p a track you are still paying as much for the equivalent album on a cd. I've noticed Kindle books are going the same way. The download used to be cheaper but now they are often the same price as the paperback version.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 5, 2015 23:07:17 GMT
They certainly should be a lot cheaper with no manufacturing costs & the buyer left with a virtual product that they can't handle or sell on. I used to use a mp3 site called emusic, they sold tracks for about 40p, that was more like it. Several years ago I subscribed to a Russian mp3 site, the tracks there were about 5p a go! Not sure how kosher that site was though.
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Post by Del Boy on Nov 6, 2015 7:40:44 GMT
Good idea Arthur. Do you speak Russian It all seems to have gone down the streaming route at the moment. Spotify and their like are ok but I always prefer to buy the cd if its an album i want.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Nov 6, 2015 9:25:44 GMT
Apparently its most of the stuff thats been available via itunes ...to start with . The thing is if it's viable then they could make some rare stuff available to own for only 1.89 per episode. It could be a good thing. Would like to think the BBC would make some of their rare stuff available but I'm not holding out much hope mate. Also the music documentaries particularly may have some copyright issues preventing them from being re-shown etc. Do you reckon this will be the beginning of the BBC charging users for iPlayer too?
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Post by Windy Miller on Nov 6, 2015 15:53:09 GMT
It's been launched with a very commercial product range. Loads of Dr. Who and things from the recent past, but the rare stuff, as others have said, is what we really want to see. I hope over time BBC Store grows to offer a more BBC 2 orientated back catalogue that we can download and enjoy.
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