Hornplayer9599 wrote:

> On 3/16/2024 14:32, Blueshirt wrote:
> >
> > As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord
> > VPN UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1
> > here anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work
> > for me.
>
> I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
> possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
> watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
> of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
> the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.

That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that their
service works with the BBC iPlayer...

https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn

Maybe you should contact their support department.

In article <xn0ojh3ew24qo8h001@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>
>> On 3/16/2024 14:32, Blueshirt wrote:
>> >
>> > As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord
>> > VPN UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1
>> > here anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work
>> > for me.
>>
>> I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
>> possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
>> watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
>> of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
>> the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.
>
>That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that their
>service works with the BBC iPlayer...
>
>https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn
>
>Maybe you should contact their support department.

I might try thr URL out.
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On 3/18/2024 10:52, Blueshirt wrote:
> Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>
>> On 3/16/2024 14:32, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>
>>> As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord
>>> VPN UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1
>>> here anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work
>>> for me.
>>
>> I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
>> possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
>> watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
>> of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
>> the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.
>
> That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that their
> service works with the BBC iPlayer...
>
> https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn
>
> Maybe you should contact their support department.

No need, read what was online. Figured out what step I forgot to do.
Now new problem...have to have an account tied to a UK post code. Hard
to get one of those here.

--

Intelligence is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
--Carl Sagan

Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:
> On 3/18/2024 10:52, Blueshirt wrote:
>> Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/16/2024 14:32, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord
>>>> VPN UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1
>>>> here anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work
>>>> for me.
>>>
>>> I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
>>> possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
>>> watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
>>> of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
>>> the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.
>>
>> That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that their
>> service works with the BBC iPlayer...
>>
>> https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn
>>
>> Maybe you should contact their support department.
>
> No need, read what was online. Figured out what step I forgot to do.
> Now new problem...have to have an account tied to a UK post code. Hard
> to get one of those here.
>

Oh they make you sign into your account now? The postcode is just so the
live streams carry the “right” local programming I think. You can use any
valid random one.

HD7 5UZ covers addresses on five different streets somewhere in England,
which I think is the least precise. (UK postcodes can cover from 1 to 100
properties - average is just 15 or so).

Don’t use SW1A 1AA as that is Buckingham Palace.

Other than that just use a .uk or non geographical email address (but one
you have access to as you’ll likely need to validate).

And promise you have a TV licence when they ask.

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On 15/03/2024 14:54, The Last Doctor wrote:
>
> So here’s the Disney influence in action. The new season premieres with a
> double episode at midnight at the start of Saturday 11th May on BBC iPlayer
> and will then air on BBC1 that evening and the same pattern will be
> followed every week after that.
>
> The episodes will drop on Disney+ at exactly the same time - so they will
> premiere from 7pm (EST) on FRIDAYS on Disney+ in the USA and equivalent
> times worldwide.
>
> So Disney get premieres at Friday prime time - to the extent that that
> matters to a streamer. And the BBC prime broadcast is 19 hours later. Proof
> positive that live TV ratings are no longer meaningful for this show - as
> most fans worldwide will have watched it already before it airs on BBC One.
> Aggie will, of course, declare that ratings have fallen off a cliff

They will have since the Eurovision Song Contest final is immediately
after it. Let's see which does better.

> because the linear ratings are now going to be almost entirely casual
> viewers only.
>

Not with the ESC. The question is how many viewers will part 1 get
compared with part 2. Then we can work out what they're really tuning in
for.

Why are the BBC showing two parts on the same day anyway? Do they think
the first episode is not good enough to draw viewers in?

Don't expect anyone to watch it on Disney+. The garbage that masqueraded
as a Christmas special was a total flop, and parents will not allow
their children to watch anything related to Disney because it's being
run by a bunch of perverts that want to use entertainment to sexually
groom children.

Just look at the pictures of that pervert Ncuti Gatwa in the papers with
him dressed up as woman in order to sexually attract men. No decent
parent will let their children watch this show and don't expect anyone
to be talking about it in the school playground for fear of being
socially excluded as a complete weirdo.

> My wife is likely to be annoyed with me - staying up late to watch “bloody
> stupid Doctor Who”.
>
> C’est la vie.
>

So since she won't be watching it with you because of the time, she
won't be watching it at all because you've already seen it. I bet the
ratings will probably count you twice for each episode, so they'll
probably need correcting down.

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"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
stands for." -William Shatner

On 15/03/2024 17:58, solar penguin wrote:
> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>
>
> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>

Had to watch Reacher, Gen V, and The Wheel of Woke at either midnight or
1 am on Amazon on a Thursday or Friday so this will make no difference
and will give me a chance to write my review without missing the
Eurovision Song Contest.

--
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"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
stands for." -William Shatner

On 16/03/2024 11:22, The Last Doctor wrote:
> Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>>
>>> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
>>> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>>>
>> I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function where, if I
>> have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to record a particular
>> Time period from whatever channel the T.V. is tuned to AND the T.V. is
>> LEFT *ON* . (Sound turned down to enable sleep!)
>>
>> At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch it!!
>
> We will have it Daniel. It’s not being broadcast at midnight - it’s being
> released on the BBC iPlayer then, and will then be available to watch on
> demand for … well, a very long time. Almost every TV sold in Britain in the
> last ten years has iPlayer and a host of other apps built in, and for those
> few that don’t, a Roku or Amazon Fire stick plugged in does the job.
>
> It will also be broadcast on BBC1 nineteen hours later, but that is
> secondary now. It’s a streaming world. (I don’t even have an aerial or
> satellite dish feed into my main TV any more. It’s all streamed.)
>

Wait a moment. The Eurovision final is on at 8pm and that's live so
can't be moved. How can 2 episodes of Doctor Who start showing at 7pm
unless they're only 25 to 30 minutes long. What's going on?

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"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
stands for." -William Shatner

On 16/03/2024 13:52, Blueshirt wrote:
> Daniel65 wrote:
>
>> solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>>
>>> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
>>> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>>
>> I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function
>> where, if I have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to
>> record a particular Time period from whatever channel the T.V.
>> is tuned to AND the T.V. is LEFT ON . (Sound turned down to
>> enable sleep!)
>>
>> At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch
>> it!!
>
> Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
> iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor Who
> at anytime and as many times as you want from that date/time...
> long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday evening.

Except that on iPlayer the video quality is always crap and stuttery
compared to Amazon. It's not even 1080p. And why isn't Doctor Who
available in 4K?

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"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
stands for." -William Shatner

In article <b65KN.15635434$ee1.10607524@fx16.ams4>,
Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:
>On 3/18/2024 10:52, Blueshirt wrote:
>> Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/16/2024 14:32, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord
>>>> VPN UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1
>>>> here anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work
>>>> for me.
>>>
>>> I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
>>> possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
>>> watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
>>> of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
>>> the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.
>>
>> That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that their
>> service works with the BBC iPlayer...
>>
>> https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn
>>
>> Maybe you should contact their support department.
>
>No need, read what was online. Figured out what step I forgot to do.
>Now new problem...have to have an account tied to a UK post code. Hard
>to get one of those here.
>

Genius!

>--
>
>Intelligence is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
>--Carl Sagan
>

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In article <utavg3$kdcu$1@dont-email.me>,
The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:
>> On 3/18/2024 10:52, Blueshirt wrote:
>>> Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/16/2024 14:32, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord
>>>>> VPN UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1
>>>>> here anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work
>>>>> for me.
>>>>
>>>> I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
>>>> possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
>>>> watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
>>>> of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
>>>> the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.
>>>
>>> That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that their
>>> service works with the BBC iPlayer...
>>>
>>> https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn
>>>
>>> Maybe you should contact their support department.
>>
>> No need, read what was online. Figured out what step I forgot to do.
>> Now new problem...have to have an account tied to a UK post code. Hard
>> to get one of those here.
>>
>
>Oh they make you sign into your account now? The postcode is just so the
>live streams carry the “right” local programming I think. You can use any
>valid random one.
>
>HD7 5UZ covers addresses on five different streets somewhere in England,
>which I think is the least precise. (UK postcodes can cover from 1 to 100
>properties - average is just 15 or so).
>
>Don’t use SW1A 1AA as that is Buckingham Palace.
>
>Other than that just use a .uk or non geographical email address (but one
>you have access to as you’ll likely need to validate).
>
>And promise you have a TV licence when they ask.
>

Can we purchase?

>--
>“The timelines and … canon … are rupturing” - the Doctor

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In article <utb4lp$laer$2@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>On 15/03/2024 14:54, The Last Doctor wrote:
>>
>> So here’s the Disney influence in action. The new season premieres with a
>> double episode at midnight at the start of Saturday 11th May on BBC iPlayer
>> and will then air on BBC1 that evening and the same pattern will be
>> followed every week after that.
>>
>> The episodes will drop on Disney+ at exactly the same time - so they will
>> premiere from 7pm (EST) on FRIDAYS on Disney+ in the USA and equivalent
>> times worldwide.
>>
>> So Disney get premieres at Friday prime time - to the extent that that
>> matters to a streamer. And the BBC prime broadcast is 19 hours later. Proof
>> positive that live TV ratings are no longer meaningful for this show - as
>> most fans worldwide will have watched it already before it airs on BBC One.
>> Aggie will, of course, declare that ratings have fallen off a cliff
>
>They will have since the Eurovision Song Contest final is immediately
>after it. Let's see which does better.
>
>> because the linear ratings are now going to be almost entirely casual
>> viewers only.
>>
>
>Not with the ESC. The question is how many viewers will part 1 get
>compared with part 2. Then we can work out what they're really tuning in
>for.
>
>Why are the BBC showing two parts on the same day anyway? Do they think
>the first episode is not good enough to draw viewers in?
>
>Don't expect anyone to watch it on Disney+. The garbage that masqueraded
>as a Christmas special was a total flop, and parents will not allow
>their children to watch anything related to Disney because it's being
>run by a bunch of perverts that want to use entertainment to sexually
>groom children.
>
>Just look at the pictures of that pervert Ncuti Gatwa in the papers with
>him dressed up as woman in order to sexually attract men. No decent
>parent will let their children watch this show and don't expect anyone
>to be talking about it in the school playground for fear of being
>socially excluded as a complete weirdo.
>
>> My wife is likely to be annoyed with me - staying up late to watch “bloody
>> stupid Doctor Who”.
>>
>> C’est la vie.
>>
>
>So since she won't be watching it with you because of the time, she
>won't be watching it at all because you've already seen it. I bet the
>ratings will probably count you twice for each episode, so they'll
>probably need correcting down.
>

So the BBC and Disney+ pulls a bad move.

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>
>"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
>stands for." -William Shatner
>

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In article <utb4ts$laer$3@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>On 15/03/2024 17:58, solar penguin wrote:
>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>>
>>
>> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
>> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>>
>
>Had to watch Reacher, Gen V, and The Wheel of Woke at either midnight or
>1 am on Amazon on a Thursday or Friday so this will make no difference
>and will give me a chance to write my review without missing the
>Eurovision Song Contest.
>

A! Ha!!

>--
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>
>"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
>stands for." -William Shatner
>

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In article <utb574$laer$4@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>On 16/03/2024 11:22, The Last Doctor wrote:
>> Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>> solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
>>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>>>
>>>> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
>>>> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>>>>
>>> I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function where, if I
>>> have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to record a particular
>>> Time period from whatever channel the T.V. is tuned to AND the T.V. is
>>> LEFT *ON* . (Sound turned down to enable sleep!)
>>>
>>> At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch it!!
>>
>> We will have it Daniel. It’s not being broadcast at midnight - it’s being
>> released on the BBC iPlayer then, and will then be available to watch on
>> demand for … well, a very long time. Almost every TV sold in Britain in the
>> last ten years has iPlayer and a host of other apps built in, and for those
>> few that don’t, a Roku or Amazon Fire stick plugged in does the job.
>>
>> It will also be broadcast on BBC1 nineteen hours later, but that is
>> secondary now. It’s a streaming world. (I don’t even have an aerial or
>> satellite dish feed into my main TV any more. It’s all streamed.)
>>
>
>Wait a moment. The Eurovision final is on at 8pm and that's live so
>can't be moved. How can 2 episodes of Doctor Who start showing at 7pm
>unless they're only 25 to 30 minutes long. What's going on?
>

Knew something is fishy!

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>
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>stands for." -William Shatner
>

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In article <utb5gm$laer$5@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>On 16/03/2024 13:52, Blueshirt wrote:
>> Daniel65 wrote:
>>
>>> solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
>>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>>>
>>>> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
>>>> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>>>
>>> I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function
>>> where, if I have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to
>>> record a particular Time period from whatever channel the T.V.
>>> is tuned to AND the T.V. is LEFT ON . (Sound turned down to
>>> enable sleep!)
>>>
>>> At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch
>>> it!!
>>
>> Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
>> iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor Who
>> at anytime and as many times as you want from that date/time...
>> long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday evening.
>
>Except that on iPlayer the video quality is always crap and stuttery
>compared to Amazon. It's not even 1080p. And why isn't Doctor Who
>available in 4K?
>

RTD?

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>
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>stands for." -William Shatner
>

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On 16/03/2024 14:59, Blueshirt wrote:
> The Doctor wrote:
>
>> In article <xn0oje74q3qw47c004@reader.xsnews.nl>,
>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>
>>> Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
>>> iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor
>>> Who at anytime and as many times as you want from that
>>> date/time... long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday
>>> evening.
>>
>> Well I will take the non-disney option.
>
> That's okay, that's your choice.
>
> It's only a few months ago you - and your tag-team partner -
> were trying to convince us of the decline of Disney... they've
> declined so much they now set the time when we can all watch
> Doctor Who episodes, regardless of whether we watch Disney+ or
> not!
>

They got complaints when they were dropping woke Star Wars garbage at
midnight California time and no one was watching it. Now all the
complaints are going to the BBC for the same reason. People will skip
through it on iPlayer at midnight and figure out it's woke crap so they
won't bother to watch it the following evening.

> Welcome to 2024...

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On 19/03/2024 04:53, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <utb4ts$laer$3@dont-email.me>,
> The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> On 15/03/2024 17:58, solar penguin wrote:
>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>>>
>>>
>>> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
>>> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>>>
>>
>> Had to watch Reacher, Gen V, and The Wheel of Woke at either midnight or
>> 1 am on Amazon on a Thursday or Friday so this will make no difference
>> and will give me a chance to write my review without missing the
>> Eurovision Song Contest.
>>
>
>
> A! Ha!!
>

Star Trek: Picard had to wait until the following day as the dropped it
at 8am UK time, so the torrenters got to watch it before people like me
who paid for it.

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stands for." -William Shatner

On 19/03/2024 04:54, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <utb5gm$laer$5@dont-email.me>,
> The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> On 16/03/2024 13:52, Blueshirt wrote:
>>> Daniel65 wrote:
>>>
>>>> solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
>>>>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
>>>>> insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function
>>>> where, if I have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to
>>>> record a particular Time period from whatever channel the T.V.
>>>> is tuned to AND the T.V. is LEFT ON . (Sound turned down to
>>>> enable sleep!)
>>>>
>>>> At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch
>>>> it!!
>>>
>>> Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
>>> iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor Who
>>> at anytime and as many times as you want from that date/time...
>>> long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday evening.
>>
>> Except that on iPlayer the video quality is always crap and stuttery
>> compared to Amazon. It's not even 1080p. And why isn't Doctor Who
>> available in 4K?
>>
>
> RTD?

YouTube is 4K and Edge and Chrome can enhance lower resolution content
to HD, but the BBC won't let them do that with any of the low quality
crap on iPlayer. It's hardly even 720p and the gamma correction is
totally off and makes everything looks washed out.

--
The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
stands for." -William Shatner

The True Doctor wrote:

> On 16/03/2024 14:59, Blueshirt wrote:
> >
> > It's only a few months ago you - and your tag-team partner -
> > were trying to convince us of the decline of Disney...
> > they've declined so much they now set the time when we can
> > all watch Doctor Who episodes, regardless of whether we
> > watch Disney+ or not!
>
> They got complaints when they were dropping woke Star Wars
> garbage at midnight California time and no one was watching
> it. Now all the complaints are going to the BBC for the same
> reason. People will skip through it on iPlayer at midnight and
> figure out it's woke crap so they won't bother to watch it the
> following evening.

Well, I'm going to have a midnight Doctor Who watching party
with my son for Season One... if interested enough we/him/me
might watch the episode again when it's broadcast later on that
day.

We are looking forward to the double episode season launch in
May especially... new Doctor Who... in the night! It'll almost
be like when we did the Game of Thrones new episode thing at
2am. That was great fun. (Until the last season!) Trust me,
midnight Doctor Who watching parties are gonna become a 'thing'!

Whether it turns out to be "woke crap" is another issue
altogether...

The True Doctor wrote:

> On 15/03/2024 14:54, The Last Doctor wrote:
> >
> > The episodes will drop on Disney+ at exactly the same time -
> > so they will premiere from 7pm (EST) on FRIDAYS on Disney+
> > in the USA and equivalent times worldwide.
> >
> > So Disney get premieres at Friday prime time - to the extent
> > that that matters to a streamer. And the BBC prime broadcast
> > is 19 hours later. Proof positive that live TV ratings are
> > no longer meaningful for this show - as most fans worldwide
> > will have watched it already before it airs on BBC One.
> > Aggie will, of course, declare that ratings have fallen off
> > a cliff
>
> They will have since the Eurovision Song Contest final is
> immediately after it. Let's see which does better.

The Eurovision Song Contest won't have people who have already
watched it seventeen hours before on the BBC iPlayer though,
will it?

If the BBC really cared as much about traditional TV ratings as
you seem to think they do, they wouldn't be streaming two
episodes of one of their prime shows back-to-back on their
streaming platform at midnight!

The True Doctor wrote:
>
> so this will make no difference and will give me a chance to
> write my review without missing the Eurovision Song Contest.

Okay, here's Blueshirt's challenge to you for Season One...

Try and write a review without using the following words...
woke... garbage... sexual... grooming...

If you own a Thesaurus you should be fine!

The True Doctor wrote:

> On 16/03/2024 13:52, Blueshirt wrote:
> >
> > Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
> > iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor
> > Who at anytime and as many times as you want from that
> > date/time... long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday
> > evening.
>
> Except that on iPlayer the video quality is always crap and
> stuttery compared to Amazon. It's not even 1080p. And why
> isn't Doctor Who available in 4K?

I think you'll find the 2023 Doctor Who specials were in UHD on
the iPlayer... well, the BBC certainly announced they would be
anyway.

I don't know about Season One obviously.

The Doctor wrote:

> In article <utb4lp$laer$2@dont-email.me>,
> The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
> >
> > So since she won't be watching it with you because of the
> > time, she won't be watching it at all because you've already
> > seen it. I bet the ratings will probably count you twice for
> > each episode, so they'll probably need correcting down.
>
> So the BBC and Disney+ pulls a bad move.

To some people every move that the BBC or Disney make is a bad
move... Doctor Who fans HATE change of any sort!

Hornplayer9599 wrote:

> On 3/18/2024 10:52, Blueshirt wrote:
> > Hornplayer9599 wrote:
> > >
> > > I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
> > > possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
> > > watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
> > > of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
> > > the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.
> >
> > That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that
> > their service works with the BBC iPlayer...
> >
> > https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn
> >
> > Maybe you should contact their support department.
>
> No need, read what was online. Figured out what step I forgot
> to do. Now new problem...have to have an account tied to a UK
> post code. Hard to get one of those here.

Easy enough. I use a UK address, I just don't live there!

At the moment as it's not all tied in to one database any proper
UK postcode works for registration... you will need to use a
real e-mail address though.

BT11 8FJ / BT12 6FR / CF23 5YB

Are all proper postcodes used by people I know in the UK...

The True Doctor wrote:
>
> Star Trek: Picard had to wait until the following day as the
> dropped it at 8am UK time, so the torrenters got to watch it
> before people like me who paid for it.

If I'd have known how poor ST:Picard would be I'd have made it
wait too... S1 & S2 especially... S3 was quite good though.

The True Doctor wrote:
>
> Wait a moment. The Eurovision final is on at 8pm and that's
> live so can't be moved. How can 2 episodes of Doctor Who start
> showing at 7pm unless they're only 25 to 30 minutes long.
> What's going on?

The BBC have not said that Doctor Who will start at 7pm!

At a guess I'd say the episodes will be around 50 minutes each
and so Doctor Who will probably start on BBC1 around 6:20pm.

(If they're 45 mins each, 6:30pm, etc...)