I will agree that the DVDs are VERY expensive. I mean £40 (or was it more) for 8 episodes of Torchwood series one? You must be kidding.

But as for the release problems we have been having that for years with your shows so I know that pain. We routinely wait for all your media as long as that.

I heard a few years ago that 70 percent of TV torrent downloads were from Britain and that didn't surprise me, we get the shaft.

The main problem however is that the BBC is stuck in the old way of doing things. Charging a mandatory fee to TV owners and showing it to those license payers. Now, with the Internet and easy distribution, there is obviously some infighting about what do do. With some claiming of the old folk thinking that 'the colonies' shouldn't get the BBC for free. These are the kind of people that think TCP refers to a cream. The new agers, the iplayer inventors and alike, see a new golden age of broadcasting via new media channels. Though somewhere along the line it became perverted. Suddenly Microsoft were heroes in the EU instead of the vile criminals that they are, who are now trying to monopolize a new business.

Suddenly we have DRM, Flash and exceptions for iPhones because the management use them and everyone forgets that the BBC is not a business. It's meant to broadcast media, that's all. Why create bariers to the poor and other countries when we could use their income.

Why not sell it to Hulu and recieve a share of the profits? That is sheer genius, I am proud of that idea. So I'll quit while I'm ahead.

Zuzu in theory I agree with you, but here's my problem.

We pay for the BBC, you could get it for free aslong as (in adverst) revenue can be gained from you that would be of equal value. You see what I'm saying?

It's like us getting PBS after you guys do all the funding drives. Funding drives that for the sake of my metaphor are mandatory.

I have no problem with you getting free BBC, aslong as I am not funding the bills for the rest of the world not to pay for it.

I think (as I have posted on the BBC site, or at least attempted to since you need the web master to allow the post to go through) that the system needs overhauled. It is based on outmoded concepts such as DRM and Location based broadcasting when it doesn't need to be.

I mean it's not like their shows can be downloaded off the Internet more easily than other ways allow. For example, Bittorrents with RSS feeds would allow you to download a program as soon as it is aired, using the software of your choice to do so.

The BBC may well find that it is investing in an industry that will go exactly the same way as DRM'd music. Nobody wants to be told how to do things so they will find better and easier ways to do it, that don't include them.

I like that the BBC tries to lead inovation; in podcasting (which is notable not DRM'd) TV over mobile phone, the creaion of freeview and soon freesat. However, it is moving into the wrong direction.

*RANT OVER*

This service seems to have crashed. Or maybe be taken down thanks to this informative article.

My tone there may seem critical, it isn't. I tried to access the service using the guide (like iPlayer should have been designed in the first place). It failed.

I am annoyed. I always trusted the BBC. The one voice that could be trusted. It still is that. But if you have to buy more things to get to that message then it defeats it's own purpose. Content payed for by the subscription fee.

My two cents are that anyone outside of the UK should not be using this service. You have Hula and we can't access it, but I don't hear you complaining about that. So consider that before you say that my point is not valid. I would have no problem if you guys watched adverts to cover costs, but they are unlikely to do that. They should do this to allow you access but won't. Look on the bright side. You can get it all on torrent sites and then buy it over iTunes if you like it.