Dive, Dive, Dive!

[Jan Kyster]

Originally Posted by CCIP

It's more about what you haven't done. Namely, you don't pay the mandatory TV license fee that Britons do. Some people would envy you on that

erhmm... I pay for BBC W, BBC E, BBC L, BBC K and BBC HD

And don't get me started on mandatory license fee
I sincerely doubt the brits are paying more than we poor danes do...
My bill is £1100 a year for TV and Internet... beat that!


Btw. BBC Knowledge is running a serie right now called "Secrets of World War II" - chapter 18 and 19 is on in half an hour. Worth every penny.


Oops! OT again...

[UnderseaLcpl]

I can't watch this because I don't pay a British TV tax!? That does it. I'm dumping the next boatload of British TVs I see into Boston harbor.

[papa_smurf]

It was broadcast last year as part of BBC Four's season on the sea, but good to see again.

[McBeck]

I can see it and live in DK....apparently I pay for BCC

[Jan Kyster]

Originally Posted by McBeck

I can see it and live in DK....apparently I pay for BCC

Really? I'm curious...

Running on yousee.dk cable network here and you?


Or did you do something "special" to run the video?

[bookworm_020]

I pay for the ABBC (Australian British Broadcasting Corporation), so in about 5 years I might have a chance of seeing it......

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

That does it. I'm dumping the next boatload of British TVs I see into Boston harbor.

Feel free, the last British TV producer closed it's factory about 18 months ago, and that was Sanyo UK - so it's all Japanese parts nominally put together in Britain.

Edit: Apparently there is one more, Cello Electronics, never heard of them

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Feel free, the last British TV producer closed it's factory about 18 months ago, and that was Sanyo UK - so it's all Japanese parts nominally put together in Britain.

Edit: Apparently there is one more, Cello Electronics, never heard of them

Nice to see that the UK's economic decisions are panning out so well. With policies like taxation for TV, the shadow of the Empire will indubitably become a smaller, better-defined, and higher-definition type of shadow. That's progress.

In any case, I'm still mad about not being able to watch this vid. Being a citizen of the US, which buys pretty much everything from everywhere, and a proponent of consumerism as a mechanim of social advancement to boot, I find this state of affairs unacceptable. Surely, there must be something significant that we import from the UK that I can dump into a harbor somewhere to protest injust taxation. Not tea, though. That's been done.

[Catfish]

It's the logical development of a once-free internet. Google has, as the first company, restricted access to the internet for the brainwashed chinese people (this directly supporting the chinese dictatorship, THANKS GOOGLE!) , and now that governments and other companies see it's possible, they also begin to use to keep certain people out .. your internet provider delivers your country ID with any request, and some countries or evvem certain users can just be switched off that way. You can use IP masquerading though, but if it works it is slooow ..
If you entered any internet url once, you would see it. Not now, and it's getting worse.

[limkol]

@McBeck:

how did you manage that? I just get the 'Not available in your area' message

[XabbaRus]

I actually don't begrudge the license fee. It gives me a TV channel(s) that is independent from the government and also from commercial sponsors - think Sky and Rupert Murdoch.

What I do object to is when instead of spending that money on good dramas and documentary and current affairs programmes, they try and chase ratings with the likes commercial channels which it doesn't need to do as it doesn't have to please advertisers.

Apart from that I love the BBC.

But then I have always loved the Russian airforce...great planes....