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Well this report that came out, to me, seems to be a load of balls. I'm really looking forward to the iPlayer and think it's a really good thing. Looks like Ofcom think differently, but I can't see that any of their arguements actually hold up.

Firstly, how would the DVD market reduce? If you can only watch a show 13 days after it's broadcast, it will not affect anyone wanting to rent a DVD released 6 months after broadcast. No more than the UKtv channels that Ofcom allow to broadcast repeats.

Secondly, if it is as popular as they predict then surely this supports the recent rise in license fee as you can watch all programmes that they produce eg if you want to watch programmes broadcast onBBC1, 2 and 4 at the same time then you can.

All of this 13 day thing is stupid anyway, when you can, I believe, keep anything recorded on Sky+ for as long as you like!

Haven't Ofcom lost what few marbles they had left?

I also think the iPlayer is a very good idea; I really hope that it gets the go ahead.

I don't mind the 13 day thing - its different with computers than to VHS. If it didn't exist, BBC Worldwide would lose money for one thing.

But why 13 days? Why not 14 or 7?

How would they loose money? People are still paying the license fee to fund the programming, so really we should have a right to it on demand at anytime.

What I mean is, BBC Worldwide would lose money if there was no limit on when you can watch these programmes - because people would not buy DVDs of the programmes.