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There are many expats and others across europe trying to watch the BBC & ITV channels with many needing big dishes, rebroadcast equipment etc, etc.
What if they offered a NDS card for Europe wide use on the pan European beam on 28.2E?
You signed up for the card and had to pay a connection fee (equal to the yearly current licence fee)
You then pay a monthly charge (equal to at the licence fee per month). This would stop those in the UK claiming that those abroad are watching for free when they have to pay.
They could offer BBC 1,2,3,4,ITV,1,2,3&4 on one transponder. You would obviously pick up the other free channels on the pan euro beam, sly news etc so making a half decent fta package.
The channels would only show program's that they own the media rights to (Like BBC Prime does but on 28 East) Now most expats want the usual stuff - Eastenders, Corrie, downtown Abbey, News and all the decent stuff made by or for the BBC /ITV.
So then there wouldnt be out of area problems when say a Hollywood film is being shown. It just wouldn't be available just like some programming is not available in some regions in the UK.
But as its a subscription service with a definate number of subscribers when the Media rights are negotiated with say a Hollywood distributor they could decide if it was worth paying the extra to show on the European service.
Champions League football etc would be out as if you live in Spain the rights for there belong to Canal+ at the moment. Other program's might not be available as the BBC/ITV may only have deals for UK broadcast so just broadcast the not available screen.
So for instance a night on BBC might be:
6:00pm evening news (BBC owned)
6:30pm local news - use London (BBC owned)
7:00pm Eastenders (BBC owned)
7:30pm Hollywood made film - not BBC owned so screen shows "This program is not available in your area"
9:00pm News (BBC owned)
You get the idea
Personally I cannot see why a service like this could not be launched.
Obviously there would be costs for the providers but as the subscriber would be paying a years licence fee upfront it should generate money quite quickly.
If there were 50,000 paying £145 for a licence then that's £7.25 Million quid. Probably not much money in big business scales but should be enough to rent a transponder for a year and the cost of NDS scrambling!!!
Channel four could join the party with their own programming inc Film 4 etc
Just throwing this out there don't shoot me down in flames it's just an idea!!!!
What if they offered a NDS card for Europe wide use on the pan European beam on 28.2E?
You signed up for the card and had to pay a connection fee (equal to the yearly current licence fee)
You then pay a monthly charge (equal to at the licence fee per month). This would stop those in the UK claiming that those abroad are watching for free when they have to pay.
They could offer BBC 1,2,3,4,ITV,1,2,3&4 on one transponder. You would obviously pick up the other free channels on the pan euro beam, sly news etc so making a half decent fta package.
The channels would only show program's that they own the media rights to (Like BBC Prime does but on 28 East) Now most expats want the usual stuff - Eastenders, Corrie, downtown Abbey, News and all the decent stuff made by or for the BBC /ITV.
So then there wouldnt be out of area problems when say a Hollywood film is being shown. It just wouldn't be available just like some programming is not available in some regions in the UK.
But as its a subscription service with a definate number of subscribers when the Media rights are negotiated with say a Hollywood distributor they could decide if it was worth paying the extra to show on the European service.
Champions League football etc would be out as if you live in Spain the rights for there belong to Canal+ at the moment. Other program's might not be available as the BBC/ITV may only have deals for UK broadcast so just broadcast the not available screen.
So for instance a night on BBC might be:
6:00pm evening news (BBC owned)
6:30pm local news - use London (BBC owned)
7:00pm Eastenders (BBC owned)
7:30pm Hollywood made film - not BBC owned so screen shows "This program is not available in your area"
9:00pm News (BBC owned)
You get the idea
Personally I cannot see why a service like this could not be launched.
Obviously there would be costs for the providers but as the subscriber would be paying a years licence fee upfront it should generate money quite quickly.
If there were 50,000 paying £145 for a licence then that's £7.25 Million quid. Probably not much money in big business scales but should be enough to rent a transponder for a year and the cost of NDS scrambling!!!
Channel four could join the party with their own programming inc Film 4 etc
Just throwing this out there don't shoot me down in flames it's just an idea!!!!