DV
It's gone already, with non pin pad access apps on Smart TVs and boxes allowing VOD access to Adult and Pornographic material via side-loaded apps. The horse has already bolted there.
Doubt the watershed will go. Just look at the complaints ITV got for showing Jekyll and Hyde at 6.30pm.
It's gone already, with non pin pad access apps on Smart TVs and boxes allowing VOD access to Adult and Pornographic material via side-loaded apps. The horse has already bolted there.
VM
It's gone already, with non pin pad access apps on Smart TVs and boxes allowing VOD access to Adult and Pornographic material via side-loaded apps. The horse has already bolted there.
Eh? I’m talking about broadcast TV, where parents can expect non-family-friendly content to be shown after an appropriate time (and pin protected on Sky Cinema). It’s not like you’re talking about a new concept - VHS and DVD weren’t pin protected either.
Doubt the watershed will go. Just look at the complaints ITV got for showing Jekyll and Hyde at 6.30pm.
It's gone already, with non pin pad access apps on Smart TVs and boxes allowing VOD access to Adult and Pornographic material via side-loaded apps. The horse has already bolted there.
Eh? I’m talking about broadcast TV, where parents can expect non-family-friendly content to be shown after an appropriate time (and pin protected on Sky Cinema). It’s not like you’re talking about a new concept - VHS and DVD weren’t pin protected either.
DV
We're off topic, but I'm suggesting that the difference between licensed broadcast and the rest, has all but been eroded by internet apps that are on board receivers NOW. Any tech savvy young person being able to open the artificial walled garden on these, notably Android and Roku devices.
SP
But in the future I expect the boundaries between broadcast channels and other material to blur further. Much like how your podcast app doesn't differentiate between something from the BBC that will have any necessary content warnings and amateur/indie productions that are liable to contain all sorts of language.
I saw somebody on Twitter complaining that having asked Alexa or Siri to play one of the tracks from the Matilda musical for her kids it instead substituted a different Tim Minchin track. The one about the Pope which even if you are familiar with Tim's work doesn't give a lot of time to kill it before the first F-bomb.
I think the watershed becoming meta data and the receiver preferences deciding whether to allow access is more likely to be the approach going forward.
I saw somebody on Twitter complaining that having asked Alexa or Siri to play one of the tracks from the Matilda musical for her kids it instead substituted a different Tim Minchin track. The one about the Pope which even if you are familiar with Tim's work doesn't give a lot of time to kill it before the first F-bomb.
I think the watershed becoming meta data and the receiver preferences deciding whether to allow access is more likely to be the approach going forward.
RD
rdd
Founding member
Meanwhile...
College American Football is back this weekend, and ESPN appear to have a new look, based on what they’ve been using for the CFP playoffs, with a larger italicised font and a redesigned scorebar.
For those in the know re BT Sport, have they dropped the rights to the SEC on CBS? I know they’ve plenty of other games to show with the ESPN tie in, and they’ve been dropping “non-core” rights, so I guess it’s not really surprising.
College American Football is back this weekend, and ESPN appear to have a new look, based on what they’ve been using for the CFP playoffs, with a larger italicised font and a redesigned scorebar.
For those in the know re BT Sport, have they dropped the rights to the SEC on CBS? I know they’ve plenty of other games to show with the ESPN tie in, and they’ve been dropping “non-core” rights, so I guess it’s not really surprising.
IS
Also Eir Sports is owned by Eir who are the Irish equivalent of BT so benefit from the brand extension in Ireland.
Using that brand in the UK wouldn't work as it has no recognition here. I imagine the BT name is more recognised in Ireland than Eir is in Great Britain
In the past, it was because they couldn’t (or rather wouldn’t) use the Setanta name in GB, now it’s because they are under different ownership, even though they still co-operate operationally (and in fact are both still played out by Setanta in Dublin).
Also Eir Sports is owned by Eir who are the Irish equivalent of BT so benefit from the brand extension in Ireland.
Using that brand in the UK wouldn't work as it has no recognition here. I imagine the BT name is more recognised in Ireland than Eir is in Great Britain
RD
rdd
Founding member
Indeed. Ironically enough, BT and eir are direct competitors in the large enterprise segment, though BT got out of the consumer and SME segment in Ireland many many years ago. Then again, eir didn’t do the deal with BT, they just inherited it.
BT Sport continues to keep the BT brand in the consumer segment in Ireland, though eir handle all the sales and marketing. I always thought that it was an odd one (though highly beneficial to both eir and Setanta before them) and I wonder if it’ll be renewed, now that BT is prepared to allow Sky to wholesale its channels. That pretty much from my view ends whatever logic the Setanta deal had in the first place.
Incidentally, re the eir name in Great Britain, there’s a blink and you’ll miss it scene in the early 2000s Steven Moffat BBC2 sitcom Coupling, in which a quite clearly Telecom Eireann (eir’s name when it was state owned) branded payphone can be seen. I’ve always wondered how that ended up on screen.
BT Sport continues to keep the BT brand in the consumer segment in Ireland, though eir handle all the sales and marketing. I always thought that it was an odd one (though highly beneficial to both eir and Setanta before them) and I wonder if it’ll be renewed, now that BT is prepared to allow Sky to wholesale its channels. That pretty much from my view ends whatever logic the Setanta deal had in the first place.
Incidentally, re the eir name in Great Britain, there’s a blink and you’ll miss it scene in the early 2000s Steven Moffat BBC2 sitcom Coupling, in which a quite clearly Telecom Eireann (eir’s name when it was state owned) branded payphone can be seen. I’ve always wondered how that ended up on screen.
DV
BTTV's rarely used SS Extra channel gets a use today
Celtic - Rangers being shown on Main Event.
Cardiff - Arsenal getting shown on Extra.
Celtic - Rangers being shown on Main Event.
Cardiff - Arsenal getting shown on Extra.
BK
Michael Lyster, RTÉ presenter of The Sunday Game Live, is presenting for his final programme from Croke Park on RTÉ2 today as he is heading into retirement in October. He is there live with Joe Brolly, Pat Spillane & Colm O'Rourke.
Also about RTÉ Sport; I did not realize that their current studio for The Sunday Game in Montrose was their brand new studio since June. It is used for The Champions League coverage for some Tuesday nights over the summer.
https://twitter.com/thesundaygame/status/1003375182558330881?lang=en
Also about RTÉ Sport; I did not realize that their current studio for The Sunday Game in Montrose was their brand new studio since June. It is used for The Champions League coverage for some Tuesday nights over the summer.
https://twitter.com/thesundaygame/status/1003375182558330881?lang=en
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