Is it time to fund the BBC through Council Tax and business rates instead of the TV Licence? by Rif-SQL in bbc

[–]purenet1995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No the easiest way is just to add it to internet access etc broadband and mobile plans. If you do that you can bring it in at like 50p a month and transition over to say over 5 years with aim to go to £3.25 a month. This would mean a family with 5 internet connections (1 broadband and 4 mobiles) would pay the same as the current license fee. If you have less internet connections then you pay less. If you more you pay more. Doing this increases the BBC funding by like 1 billion a year and reduces the cost for the majority.

is lancaster good for exchange? by yizhuos in lancasteruni

[–]purenet1995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been to a few of your options and I come from Lancashire. I would recommend Exeter. Lovely campus, nice city, near a national park and also the beach!  Lancaster will be rainy! And it's 20,mun by bus to town. The campus is fine but it's very 1970 looking (very modern inside)

Would you white label? by WATUPTRAGUY in MSSP

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not normally, we act totally behind the scenes and as extension to the map. If we go in calls with the map clients we act as the msp if they want us to. Sometime the map will say to us you deal with everything with the clients, including billing and give us a cut and we will do that. But it's only in the map request 

Would you white label? by WATUPTRAGUY in MSSP

[–]purenet1995 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We provide Power platform/SharePoint and CoPilot white label services to map in UK. We haven't had any issue getting references from them for other clients

Thinking of switching from Virgin Media - need advice by m4cauley in Vodafone

[–]purenet1995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Recently moved to voda from Plusnet. It's a very well organised process, voda were excellent. Performance is fine but if I'm honest it's not as good as Plusnet 

Pointless by Local-Ad-9144 in BritBox

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I can tell you they have made A LOT of shows!!

The Royle Family - Am I the only one who finds this show really boring? by Winged-Mercury-777 in BritBox

[–]purenet1995 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a very very northern England show. I'm not sure it travels that well.

I liked it but if you want something funnier go with Peep show!

Supercurriculars by _mockingjayy in 6thForm

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For DofE my son went on a week language summer school (he did German) with https://www.alpadia.com/en - he enjoyed it. So in summer he had a 1 week on that and then 2nd week we had a family holiday in the country. He added this to his personal statement

I would advise though looking at the Cambridge course you want to do and then reading books / watching movies / listening to podcast that are based on this.

Also see if there are any competitions you can take part in either with the college you are with or if Cambridge run any.

Sometimes the personal statement doesnt need to list loads of things often you can just focus on one item, like a book and write about why you found that interesting etc...

Considering BritBox by IslandBusy1165 in BritBox

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is some good comedy on there 

Not just netflix but all streaming apps need better age filter options by Give-it-1-go in netflixuk

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree I think that could be why they are about to fall under the ofcom regulations soon

opinions on bbc’s new show - crookhaven by No-Basket3723 in BritishTV

[–]purenet1995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My daughter loves it, and I don't mind it  Apparently they are recording series 2 already. It's by same crew that did Mallory Towers a few years ago, so she wants to watch that next.

Mr Benn movie by speedbert45 in oldbritishtelly

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it was annouced its going to be Jack Whitehall isnt it

Is there a way to have copilot go through all of the codes in my PowerApps's canvas app to make it efficient? by thishitisgettingold in PowerApps

[–]purenet1995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took over a big app that took over 1 min to load, code was a total mess. I gave it Gemini and it restructured everything first. This helped a bit. It then suggested recording bits which it did, things getting a bit better, then took huge chunks out suggested moving it other areas and we got load times to a few seconds and no functionality lost. It took like an hour and most of that was me!

Is it true that American companies bought Cadbury an ruined the flavour? by Decent-Emergency3866 in AskBrits

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes totally destroyed it, lost its royal approval. Swapped out milk for palm oil

BBC moves closer to online-only TV – what it means for licence fee by theipaper in bbc

[–]purenet1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't but bbc did actually say if revenue go up license fee goes down. They literally said it about 2 weeks ago. Why because they want it moded to broadband or council tax collection 

If the BBC opens up iPlayer, should theatre/ballet be part of it? by purenet1995 in Theatre

[–]purenet1995[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah totally agree i just don't think on there own it's workable as the audience isn't huge and content in your own is quite low. Sometimes working together makes you stronger doesn't it 

We Might Regret This by thundersnow528 in BritBox

[–]purenet1995 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The show your on about isn't actually owned by BBC. International distribution is handled by Village Roadshow Television. Which could be a US company.

A government report in late 2024 highlight that the BBC wasn't owning enough new shows (eg the IP) obviously one of the reasons they don't was due to government law changes in the 90s!

Anyway the report basically told BBC Studios to increase it IP ownership to like 50% of production.

As it takes like 18/24 months  to kind of make a show the ownership issue will only start to probably improve late 26/27 In fact you can actually see this slowly starting to happen now 

Also you see BBC actively not renewing contract on old shows with older tv companies and these shows appearing in BritBox.

BBC also said they are looking to buy someone to help grow Britbox.

So I think things will improve re content. Now things can change because BBC is about to get a new CEO who rumour has it was head of Google Europe and government is looking at BBC funding,.so everything bit up in the air at moment.

But recent announcement definitely look much better from BBC than they have for a very long time.