RE: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-23 Thread Simon Fogarty
ies@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, 23 June 2017 8:30 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC BBC America is run like any other American TV station with commercials sprinkled through out the programming. I still don

Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-23 Thread Scott Granados
Wow, that seems alien to me, probably as strange to you for some of the stuff we do here.:) Very interesting, thanks for the detail. At least you get a good product. > On Jun 22, 2017, at 4:55 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > I don't mind you asking Scott. > > If you are visually impaired, you

RE: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-22 Thread David & his pack of dogs
ng TV programs from the BBC BBC America is run like any other American TV station with commercials sprinkled through out the programming. I still don’t get paying for a license to pick up free over the air broadcasts. You pay taxes right? So you’re telling me you have VAT and high income

RE: Downloading TV programs from the BBC using a VPN.

2017-06-22 Thread David & his pack of dogs
was even better. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kawal Gucukoglu Sent: June 22, 2017 1:24 PM To: Macvisionaries Subject: Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC Hi Scott. Thanks for replying. The reason

Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I don't mind you asking Scott. If you are visually impaired, you only pay half the cost of a licence. If you are over 75, the TV Licence is free for the elderly. If you live with others, then they don't need to pay for the licence. > On 22 Jun 2017, at 21:30, Scott Granados wrote: > > BBC A

Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-22 Thread Scott Granados
BBC America is run like any other American TV station with commercials sprinkled through out the programming. I still don’t get paying for a license to pick up free over the air broadcasts. You pay taxes right? So you’re telling me you have VAT and high income taxes and all sorts of fe

Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Scott. Thanks for replying. The reason why people in the UK need to pay TV licences is because it pays employees and the BBC Corporation staff their wages. Also, the BBC is a non commercial public broadcasting organisation so you get no adverts as you may know although BBC America may have

Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-22 Thread Scott Granados
Kawal, I believe the I player may be available in the US not sure but I use a VPN to circumvent the geographic detection. I run an Open VPN server in London that I attach to and boom people think I’m connecting from across the pond locally instead of from the former colonies.;) I figure since

Re: Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Paul. Sometimes when I am at work, and I want to listen to the BBC, I don't want to sign in using my logging details. So sometimes I choose the option that you will register later, then you are not prompted for your log in details. This might get around your I player Automator. Where did

Downloading TV programs from the BBC

2017-06-22 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, Until recently I used to make extensive use of the program “get iPlayer Automator” on my iMac. This let me download BBC TV programs which I could subsequently transfer to my iPod Nano to listen to. There was an option to download the TV programs with audio description. Alas get iPlayer