20-12-2023, 06:06 PM
(20-12-2023, 01:45 PM)Brekkie Wrote: It was more a case the BBC didn't want to risk having the technology be pretty much universal so there wasn't a system in place should there be a future push to move the licence fee towards a subscription model.
In other words, the BBC stifled the potential growth of the commercial market. Imagine the reduced costs of someone like Top Up TV not having to launch their own boxes with slots and have a potentially larger user base because of it.