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RE: Serious Ofcom warning for Bang Media
(16-09-2010 18:45 )Scottishbloke Wrote: (15-09-2010 22:15 )Matsui Wrote: The sooner the Internet generation grows up, and takes over these types of positions the better. For a generation that has already seen everything, and more, they will laugh at the kind of prudish, regressive regulations that Ofcon are currently enforcing. It's just a shame we have to wait.
I couldn't agree more, the babe channels are pretty much very soft core porn at best. You can see what the hell you want on the internet 24 hours a day yet despite it being well after 9pm these restrictions are still in place. It amazes me to see this contridiction still exist in 2010. The type of show you see on the sex station webcam should also be allowed to be broadcast at night as if the channels don't up the game more they are all in danger of going out of business because eventually people will begin to lose interest.
Announced today, Internet TV to formally launch. So FTA, FTV and internet all on your screen. It will be interesting to see if Ofcom try to restrict access to porn sites or if current porn channels broadcasting on Hotbird etc go web based to increase viewer numbers, (i believe there may be a demand for such content lol).
I believe this may be the first step in marginalising Ofcom's position concerning TV content unless of course they have it part covered in their VOD code or they seek to increase their powers from the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt. It will also mean access to age restricted films 24 hours a day.
Internet TV
The first blow was landed by a consortium of terrestial broadcasters, which confirmed its new set-top service combining Freeview channels, web-based and on-demand programmes would launch next year.
The service, which was two years in the pipeline and previously known as Project Canvas, also has a new name – YouView.
It will be available via a £200 set-top box and go head-to-head with Sky, which already offers its own similar technology. Yet, legal disputes could still lie ahead.
Rivals Virgin Media and Sky have both complained to media regulator Ofcom it is anti-competitive. The YouView consortium brings together terrestial broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5 with broadband providers such as BT and TalkTalk.
YouView chief executive Richard Halton promised viewers ‘a more diverse, rich, interactive experience’.
He added: ‘YouView is for those 10million people who decided not to pay, or decided they can’t pay, for subscription television.’
Viewers will be able to buy the £200 set-top box on its own or receive it as part of a deal when signing up to a broadband package.
Services will include watching the past seven days’ programmes and pausing ‘live’ TV.
Viewers would be able to access websites through their TVs, while developers could design apps like those used for iPhones.
YouView was welcomed as an ‘exciting new medium’ by Arts Council England chairwoman Dame Liz Forgan, while BBC directorgeneral Mark Thompson has described it as a ‘holy grail’ for public service broadcasting in the future.
Whilst Sky and Virgin Media may launch a legal challenge ultimately they will have to adapt to compete.
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