BBC announces 'pay to keep' service.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....Player-treatment.html

A good idea or just another money making exercise for the BBC?

£1.89 an episode seems a little steep, when the whole series of some of these old programmes can be purchased quite cheap on DVD.

I wonder how they came up with the price of £1.89? £1,99 or even £2 are more usual.

[Davethedog]

No different than a DVD and quicker.

Lets not forget DVD/CD will be a thing of the past soon. Digital download will be the game and the BBC are on it.

[jno]

iTunes sell most tracks at either 79p or 99p, so I don't suppose £1.89 is all that erratic. The price is only a rumour, anyway.

Sounds like an excellent idea to me. Presumably nobody will buy the stuff they can get cheaper already, but prices of available DVDs rise and fall. It may even be that they stop producing DVDs and let the public buy just what it wants. After all, you might want to buy just one episode of "It Ain't Half Hot, Mum" without forking out for an entire series, which is what you'd get on a DVD.

[chelle7272]

i think it's a great idea. there are many programmes that aren't available on DVD as there is not enough demand.

[EvianBaby]

I'd probably use it for certain things. I'm impatient and don't like waiting for DVD's to be released.

Those prices are an age old marketing strategy, it makes the customer feel like they are paying less if it's 99p rather than £1.00

[EvianBaby]

*obvisouly 99p is less than £1.00. I should have worded that better. You know what I mean.

[Aquariel]

As chelle says, it's a great idea if you can buy older stuff that has never been released commercially or repeated. I'd love a proper version of series like "Strange" or "Virtual Murder" or some classic Dennis Potter plays.

[whiskeryron]

I would only go for it if I can download it to my computer & then burn it to a DVD so that I can watch it at any time.

W Ron.