the internet (unless you hide behind a UK IP - available from some web sites
such as Expat Shield - though you have to put up with adverts!). For example
any live sport for which the UK broadcaster has Uk only rights will not be
available. Also 5live and TMS when BBC has no rights.
Also if you have limited bandwidth - here we have only 2 mbs - even Radio 3
and 4 can be intermittent and TV much worse.
Of course other solutions are being proposed - we could all move to Normandy> for example! At base this is nothing to do with licence fees, but with broadcasting rights and i am inclined to agree with posters who say wait and see, and take the Micawber view.
Malcolm
Reply from Doreen
Thanks Malcom. It's all very interesting (and confusing!). I can't use Expat Shield because it doesn't work on Macs. I find FilmOn really good - it meant we were able to watch some programmes when we were in Paris and I use it when the rain knocks out the satellite. We don't watch sport, so that's never been a problem. The only downside is that the ipad is not exactly a big screen!
I'm intrigued to see how it will turn out - if you look at any of the French magazines, they are still full of ads from companies offering to install satellite dishes etc, so would they all go out of business? I'm sure someone somewhere will start selling a solution if it does happen!
Doreen
