Man in a van wrote: > The question is, I guess, do the manufacturers of these IP Streaming > Devices, who are, I presume, the vendors referred to here by bpa > > > > pay any sort of fee/license for the feed, or is it supplied gratis by > the BBC? > > I wonder if a "Freedom of information Act" enquiry would reap any > benefit?
I think no action is best for a while as anything may antagonise. As an example of the power vendors have. About 2 years ago a few vendors had smart TV with BBC iPlayer capability. The TV got the info from a feed the BBC provided. Unilaterally BBC changed the feed and many user of these smart TV suddenly lost that capability - TV from Sony , Samsung etc - customer complained but got no satisfaction from either vendor nor BBC. See https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/TV-Audio-Video/BBC-iPlayer-witholding-service/td-p/262556 Now BBC certifies TVs ( see https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/how-to-guides/Sony ) which I presume means there is a legal contract between vendors and BBC for iPlayer. Vendors have to provide upgrades when BBC changes but some TV just can't be upgraded. There were far more TV users than LMS users affected by this move. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109446 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
