'Auntieflix Prime Hub Player'

The BBC is understood to have held talks with rivals including ITV about launching a Netflix-style video streaming service.

The talks, which are understood to also involve NBC Universal, the owner of the producer of shows including Downton Abbey, centre on the potential to develop a subscription TV service.

The service is likely to mostly focus on providing older, archive TV content, not the first-run of shows, although it is understood there would be a certain amount of original commissions.

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10-Mar-2016 @ 15:32

So… it's Seesaw with original content?

BBC plans to launch a homegrown rival to Netflix and Amazon Prime are a step closer to reality after the government gave it the green light to launch a new paid-for subscription service.

Corporation chiefs have held talks with potential partners including ITV and NBC Universal, owner of the producer of shows including Downton Abbey, about launching a new subscription streaming service, as revealed by the Guardian in March.

Early indications are that it would charge viewers to watch BBC programmes after the 30-day window on which they are currently available to watch for free on the iPlayer has expired.


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16-May-2016 @ 10:17

They already do this with BBC Store. You can buy every episode within the past two years of Eastenders should you want to and some Archive episodes.It is lacking some popular programmes old and new currently.

Obviously this isn't a subscription service so really I guess it's really just a change in the payment plan and to stream programmes rather than buy & keep.

BBC Store is a different beast and model though.

I suspect that this new service will slot in as a third level product.

iPlayer - Past thirty days FOC
Store - New and some archive material for sale immediately
This player, most content on a subscription basis, six months old plus, with the addition of some new material bled from the store to act as 'loss leaders' into the service.

I will be amazed if this actually ever launches in the UK.

With all the furore about the BBC stepping on commercial operators toes, I fully expect this to end up being another Kangaroo / YouView, with the BBC funding it until the last moment and then being told they have to sell it off and let someone else make the money.

What viewers want, and what's good for the BBC seem to be a long way down the list of priorities for the Government where it comes to their ideas for the Beeb.