As suggested by Hutchio, would you be prepared to pay to access live feeds from the BB house via the internet?

A Channel 4 statement, released today, said: "At the time of going to press, Channel 4 anticipates that the live streaming will be available on subscription."

This poll will close when we hear confirmation either way.

Neil
Digital Spy Ltd

There's something wrong with the options.

If i did have broadband net access, then i would probably pay, as long as it was a reasonable price, and contained something different to the Sky Digital feeds.

Maybe if it was uncensored or something

depends how many camera angles there were, ntl didn't offer anything special last year, but from what i heard sky digital had a few cameras to view, yeah i spose i would pay a tenner for that (for the whole series).

There are details about what interactive features the different providers are going to use this year, in this DS article: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/displayarticle.php?id=7270

Alex

mm well if it's just one stream i wouldn't pay for it

pfft!

I would pay if there were several streams to choose from (more than two) and it was live and uncensored. It could be made as a cert 18 PPV or something so a PIN is needed all the time.

I wouldn't pay as as I'm only on a 56k connection, it is just too choppy and unwatchable, I'll be sticking to the interactive coverage on E4. Let's hope they are better at actually editing out swear words this year, and don't keep putting train noises over it at random intervals.

No trains near Elstree, as far as I know, but you may be able to hear people in Albert Square.

Does anyone know which Star Wars was shot nearby?

not while the TV feeds are free on sat, the last couple of times they were on at 16°east.

Would never pay for the service as I would never watch it on the internet I'd just use E4. They idea......Greedy IMO


Mike

Blimey, how much money does one production company want to make? They must make a fortune on the voting numbers alone.

I have voted no, based on the quality of last years feeds, but if they were high quality broadband then yes I would be prepared to pay something.

What puzzles me about that vote is that more people have chosen £10 or under than £5 or under

money isnt an issue for me luckily

my old man is an engineer, we get all channels (excl adult) and ppv free, coz he is sky staff

Dinger

You lucky bastard

This shows the maximum people are prepared to pay. Remember that the people who would go up to £10 would also go up to £5 by definition, so they would get more people interested at less than £5 than between £5 and £10.

Also its worth bearing in mind this isn't what people *want* to pay, but what they are *willing* to pay. A very important issue in economics.

I voted no, but given a choice of alternative feeds to what was available elsewhere on an uncut, totally live (as in the time you see on their wall clock matching your own!) and unedited then I would be prepared to pay towards it.

Liv

I think they answer is pretty conclusive.

Yes, if this poll is typical there'd certainly be enough takers to make it commercially viable.

I have voted no. But, if the feeds stay free, I'll be laughing at everyone with my super-duper hyper-speedy ADSL, so I can watch 24/7 in amazing quality. Hee hee hee...

I've been looking at the Australian Big Brother site, and am not quite sure, but it looks like you pay for access to the feeds and then also pay per minute type thing, if you read the t & c. would C4 offer a flat rate for viewing or also PPV, this would make an awful lot of money for C4

I paid for the US feeds last year. CBS sold the rights to Real Networks and let them deal out passes. I think it was $20 (£13) for the 3 months but then dropped to $10 just as it was about to start so that made it an easier decision. I remember people on IRC who refused to pay on principle would wait for passes that were hacked from the server which lasted a few hours each time. Even worse though was that the producer of the show viewed the web feeds as a threat to the tv show (3 x 45min shows a week) and so loads of stuff was censored. Everyone hated FOTH (Front Of The House) which they cut to far too many times for my liking accompanied by the title music. Streams also dropped from 220k down to 150k making it feel like the people who paid had been ripped off.

Compare that to US BB1the previous year which AOL handled. It had 5 seperate feeds streaming at 300k which was excellent quality. That including 1 feed which was a 4 in 1 that made switching thru feeds very easy (just highlight the window and click it). Oh and it was FREE.