Badminton XC coverage is not live via the BBC red button this year

AShetlandBitMeOnce said:
If you are that way inclined it's actually illegal for the TV License people to enter your house without a police officer with a warrant unless you invite them in... I doubt they can confirm the capabilities of your TV from the front door..
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Pretty sure if you have a TV, they say that as long as that TV works and has the potential to go onto live TV then you have to pay the TV license? Really annoying as we very rarely watch live! I think also you're meant to have a TV license even if you have no TV and listen to the radio??
 
HashRouge said:
I'm sure I've had this discussion with TPO, because I can't understand why they don't watch their TV in a slightly different way if they are so resentful of paying the licence fee.
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Probably!! ?

I'm sure whatever was suggested didn't work for me/how I wanted to view but tbh I can't remember the details.

I'm very much in a mood and will use any slight excuse to have a rant about the
Thieving liars in government. Them profiting off the license is enough for me ?
 
MagicMelon said:
Pretty sure if you have a TV, they say that as long as that TV works and has the potential to go onto live TV then you have to pay the TV license? Really annoying as we very rarely watch live! I think also you're meant to have a TV license even if you have no TV and listen to the radio??
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I'm not that way inclined ASBMO because I'm a wimp!

So in my last house I cancelled sky before I moved and for some reason the aerial didn't work so I couldn't get "council telly". I spoke to the TV licensing people, emailed them and cancelled DD, they agreed it was fine. A wee man turned up at my door to check. This was covid times approx August 2020 so he didn't want to come input I offered him a peer through the window ro see that it absolutely wasn't connected and that I couldn't watch any live TV.
 
I couldnt' even get virgin cheaper (only service available at any sort of speed) taking the tv off (as I don't watch it) it was more expensive ?
 
I remember that questionnaire, I responded that I wouldn’t pay and I stand by that. I don’t watch it every year anyway, and if there was someone/something we really wanted to see then we would visit instead.

I think you have to pay for tickets in advance this year, there are no ‘on the gate’ entries, am I right with that or dreaming?
 
Spotherisk said:
I think you have to pay for tickets in advance this year, there are no ‘on the gate’ entries, am I right with that or dreaming?
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Yes, you're right.

Given the cost of petrol and how far it is from me, the subscription is cheaper. I'll wander over to Hickstead later on in the year...
 
No ticket sales at the gate. You can buy event entry tickets up to midnight the night before.

https://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/2022-tickets/

Even our modest usual day visit on the Thursday to walk the XC and watch some dressage would cost £60 this year, and that's early bird ticket prices. That's £14 for the car and £23 each for OH and me.

Badminton has never been a cheap day out. £15 for full coverage of the whole event inc trot ups etc seems like pretty good value for money as long as it works. I hope that I'm not left raging fruitlessly at a whirly wheel...
 
I don't mind ticket prices going up slightly, but I do think £14 for parking is a bit naughty... It's £10 at the Royal Windsor Show that I'm off to in May and even that's a bit much I think.
 
Tiddlypom said:
No ticket sales at the gate. You can buy event entry tickets up to midnight the night before.

https://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/2022-tickets/

Even our modest usual day visit on the Thursday to walk the XC and watch some dressage would cost £60 this year, and that's early bird ticket prices. That's £14 for the car and £23 each for OH and me.

Badminton has never been a cheap day out. £15 for full coverage of the whole event inc trot ups etc seems like pretty good value for money as long as it works. I hope that I'm not left raging fruitlessly at a whirly wheel...
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no. But then you’d pay the same for other top class sport. And this is the pinnacle of eventing so I’m happy to lay that.
 
Yes but it doesn’t always work depending on the streaming service being compatible with apple!

I think I can get an adapter though looking at the apple website so that’s be ok.
 
MuddyMonster said:
Can you opt out of the BBC license fee? I always thought you could but may well be wrong.
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A friend does. Doesn’t watch any live tv.


You can cancel your licence if you no longer:

  • watch or record programmes as they’re being shown on TV, on any channel
  • watch or stream programmes live on an online TV service (such as ITV Hub, All 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV, Sky Go, etc.)
  • download or watch any BBC programmes on BBC iPlayer.
 
My issue with this is not the subscribing but the fact that the BBC don't want to show it anymore!
They probably think it's not inclusive enough - yet how many people go and watch it every year. The amount of effort they are putting into women's football (not interested - don't care) or what ever they can get their hands on, yet you try and find horse sports (apart from racing) anywhere.
Horse sports are slowly being moved further down the peeking order and soon the only way to watch it will be to physically go (not necessarily a bad thing). However if its not on telly the sponsors aren't interested, then the money goes and things like the Olympics decide things like golf, skateboarding and such tosh should be in and the horses out.
The whole social thing of horses only being for the rich is becoming a reality once again, if the sports themselves aren't seen to be accessible to everyone and the view that horse owners shouldn't be, horse owners!!
Considering that most horse sports are one of the only things that men and women can compete against each other almost equally, you would of thought it would be encouraged but it doesn't seem to be going that way and look at how much we have won. It seems that the BBC and other channels are embarrassed to show us being successful at something (that isn't football or cricket - doing really well internationally at both of those aren't we!!)
I give up with the BBC and with most things that seem to be going on in the world - its all going to pot!!
I don't like this model of having to subscribe to everything whether it be Netflix, Amazon, Disney or Sky - its just bonkers and costs a fortune. Why can't you have the option to watch something you want without having to have 5 or more subscriptions.
Rant over.
 
I'm hoping I can plug the laptop into the TV with a HDMI cable. I wondered if it could be watched with a firestick, I got one for Christmas but have only used it once to watch a programme on iplayer. I don't watch much TV so haven't investigated what a firestick can do.......
I've just signed up at £14.99 so maybe April 1st is included.
 
windswoo said:
My issue with this is not the subscribing but the fact that the BBC don't want to show it anymore!
They probably think it's not inclusive enough - yet how many people go and watch it every year. The amount of effort they are putting into women's football (not interested - don't care) or what ever they can get their hands on, yet you try and find horse sports (apart from racing) anywhere.
Horse sports are slowly being moved further down the peeking order and soon the only way to watch it will be to physically go (not necessarily a bad thing). However if its not on telly the sponsors aren't interested, then the money goes and things like the Olympics decide things like golf, skateboarding and such tosh should be in and the horses out.
The whole social thing of horses only being for the rich is becoming a reality once again, if the sports themselves aren't seen to be accessible to everyone and the view that horse owners shouldn't be, horse owners!!
Considering that most horse sports are one of the only things that men and women can compete against each other almost equally, you would of thought it would be encouraged but it doesn't seem to be going that way and look at how much we have won. It seems that the BBC and other channels are embarrassed to show us being successful at something (that isn't football or cricket - doing really well internationally at both of those aren't we!!)
I give up with the BBC and with most things that seem to be going on in the world - its all going to pot!!
I don't like this model of having to subscribe to everything whether it be Netflix, Amazon, Disney or Sky - its just bonkers and costs a fortune. Why can't you have the option to watch something you want without having to have 5 or more subscriptions.
Rant over.
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Hear Hear!! If they did not constantly pay so much to the already over-inflated game of football there might be some funds left over to represent other sports - not just equine ones.
 
July dreamer said:
I'm hoping I can plug the laptop into the TV with a HDMI cable. I wondered if it could be watched with a firestick, I got one for Christmas but have only used it once to watch a programme on iplayer. I don't watch much TV so haven't investigated what a firestick can do.......
I've just signed up at £14.99 so maybe April 1st is included.
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Yes you can with firestick, if you launch Silk Browser that is a normal internet browser. If you then put in the Badminton TV address you can watch it.
 
Trouper said:
Hear Hear!! If they did not constantly pay so much to the already over-inflated game of football there might be some funds left over to represent other sports - not just equine ones.
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Why would they invest in it? There's no money in it, there's billions in football. There's no interest in it from those who aren't already horse owners, it's a completely inaccessible sport to the masses due to the cost of lessons and the huge cost of actually owning unless you are already well off and have land, so it will never get the engagement that football would get where you can go to the local club and pay £5 per session. Not to mention the bad PR from many people about using animals in sport in the first place. TV is business, horses don't have profit anywhere near them unless it's racing.

Sometimes you have to look at things objectively before you get angry about them, and you are thinking about this from the POV of being a horse owner.
 
AShetlandBitMeOnce said:
Why would they invest in it? There's no money in it, there's billions in football. There's no interest in it from those who aren't already horse owners, it's a completely inaccessible sport to the masses due to the cost of lessons and the huge cost of actually owning unless you are already well off and have land, so it will never get the engagement that football would get where you can go to the local club and pay £5 per session. Not to mention the bad PR from many people about using animals in sport in the first place. TV is business, horses don't have profit anywhere near them unless it's racing.

Sometimes you have to look at things objectively before you get angry about them, and you are thinking about this from the POV of being a horse owner.
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I take your point but all the while I am a captive to their obligatory licence fee I do expect better representation of all/more sports - on the basis of inclusivity alone.
 
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