{"id":1738,"date":"2012-10-02T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2012-09-14T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T21:27:08","slug":"british-tv-is-so-civilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/british-tv-is-so-civilized\/","title":{"rendered":"British TV is so civilized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried out the iPlayer for the first time last night (at the time of writing) to watch the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who, which I had missed the beginning of due to having to put the children to bed. On going to the BBC website it was just three clicks &#8211; one to start &#8220;watch live&#8221;, one to restart the current program and one to maximize the window. And there was negligible buffering time, and it was higher definition than standard definition TV! I was very impressed. It was a great episode too &#8211; most of the Dalek episodes suffer from massive unexplained plot holes, but this one was quite well thought out.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the US networks have streaming sites, but they all have adverts, the quality is worse than standard definition TV and new shows usually aren&#8217;t available for a day to a week after they air. Plus a year&#8217;s basic cable subscription costs more than a year&#8217;s UK TV license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried out the iPlayer for the first time last night (at the time of writing) to watch the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who, which I had missed the beginning of due to having to put the children to bed. On going to the BBC website it was just three clicks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}