BBC Store Awful Execution
A good idea to make the archive available but awful execution.
Not providing apps on common TV platforms isn't great.
People who like archive material like to own this stuff in case it goes away, this was DRM'd to hell. Now this is going away, you will lose access to your archive! Great!
This guy wrote a good breakdown of all the faults:
https://writtenbyabriton.com/2015/11/06/12-things-very-wrong-with-the-new-bbc-store/
It was also overpriced, one example he gives:
The Good Life, complete: Amazon: 17 pounds. BBC Store: 36 pounds.
Also people into archive TV want some guarantees about the material. They want it in the original format, not some low bandwidth with dodgy resolution with the interlacing removed esp given the cost of this material.
Will the BBC learn from the cost issues, the DRM issues, the poor resolution. Probably not as MBA's and media studies students who work there don't get taught this stuff!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
