It's particularly pointless to lock off these bonus videos on the site, because that's not where the Beeb makes its money from overseas viewing. Before the iPlayer, they used to deliver lower-quality video for overseas people watching bonus features on the DW website; with the newer tools available nowadays, they could do the same thing with zero additional effort, but no, it all goes through the iPlayer.
And the one time I heard anyone from the Beeb talk about potentially setting up an online video site accessible to overseas audiences, it was some tool from BBC Worldwide crowing about how he could figured people would pay $10/episode for Torchwood. NO ONE is charging that amount of money for an episode of anything. I'm sure someone somewhere at the Beeb is thinking seriously about the overseas video market, but it isn't this guy.
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on 2010-07-05 05:09 pm (UTC)And the one time I heard anyone from the Beeb talk about potentially setting up an online video site accessible to overseas audiences, it was some tool from BBC Worldwide crowing about how he could figured people would pay $10/episode for Torchwood. NO ONE is charging that amount of money for an episode of anything. I'm sure someone somewhere at the Beeb is thinking seriously about the overseas video market, but it isn't this guy.