Wimbledon 2022

[Neil Jones]

Just because people can use alternatives it doesn't mean they should have to, and many people complaining aren't doing so selfishly but also thinking about those who can't use the iPlayer for whatever reason.  That's a sign we still have somewhat of a functioning society - people caring about those affected by things that may not affect themselves directly.

And yes, The Great British Sewing Bee may be on iPlayer but Bradford on Duty, postponed from last night, isn't - so that isn't the answer to the overall issue.   Wimbledon absolutely should take priority and the ratings show the benefit of it doing so on BBC1, but the scheduling of other programming needs to be done in a way that conceeds scheduled programmes over these two weeks will always be disrupted.

The BBC trying to make iPlayer happen when frankly it's not ready to do so is creating a situation of haves and have-nots.  Is that right for the BBC to be doing that?  I don't konw how many times I can say it but everyone not has superfast broadband, especially the older generation.  My grandparents never had either a smart TV or the Internet.  My father and uncle bought them a Freeview capable TV at DSO and that lasted them until they both died.  And I pay my television license to watch television, not my phone.

Pardon me but you need to be covered by a TV Licence to watch or record programmes as they’re being shown on TV.  That's what you buy the licence for.  The device you use doesn't come into it, whether that device is a TV, a phone, a potato or next door's dog.

As for "superfast broadband", I can tell you now that iPlayer is perfectly usable on ADSL connections and 3G.  If you try force UHD down a crappy ADSL connection then you deserve all the problems you get.  And "older generation" has nothing to do with it, no end of 60/70/80/90 year old people who are online  these days, so you can remove that generalisation for a start. All I'm going to mention at this point is Youtuber geriatric1927, who was vlogging on YouTube at the age of 86 when he died.

Anyway, back on topic... nice backhand there just!