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Title: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: CryptoPanda on May 01, 2014, 06:18:45 PM
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that BBC (or some other similar TV) was airing bitcoin documentary online just recently.
Does anyone know about it and where we can watch it?


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: telepatheic on May 01, 2014, 08:39:36 PM
I think you mean CNBC. It's available to watch online here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzDI2z72NE)


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: Lamigo on May 01, 2014, 08:41:30 PM
I think you mean CNBC. It's available to watch m/id/101588166]online here (http://www.c[Suspicious link removed)

Your link is not working. Could you fix it?  :)

EDIT: It works perfectly now. Thanks.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: telepatheic on May 01, 2014, 08:41:44 PM
Fixed


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: CryptoPanda on May 02, 2014, 05:19:06 AM
thanks but it's only 240p resolution.
Got any better?


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: blatchcorn on May 02, 2014, 05:31:48 AM
It is going mainstream!!!


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: Dogtanian on May 02, 2014, 02:07:48 PM
There's nothing on the BBC website about this or in the TV guide. I wonder when the first bitcoin documentary will get aired by mainstream TV though.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: MegaHustlr on May 02, 2014, 03:22:55 PM
There is a great simple bitcoin introduction on the guardian but thats a newspaper, not sure about tv things.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: yoxedubi on May 02, 2014, 05:44:03 PM
Are you sure about this? I don't remember anything on Bitcoin being aired on BBC.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on May 02, 2014, 06:57:29 PM
It is going mainstream!!!

toooo DaaaaaAAAAA MooooooooooOONN!


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: alani123 on May 02, 2014, 07:02:18 PM
Maybe this doesn't sound or seem interesting to us that are already familiar with what bitcoin is, but the fact that this aired in a channel like  CNBC is great news.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: LMGTFY on May 02, 2014, 07:02:59 PM
The BBC's consumer tech programme, Click (formerly Click Online) apparently featured Bitcoin in an episode last year (I didn't see it, but this thread made me think of Click Online for the first time since I cancelled my TV license and stopped watching TV!): http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/click-season-2013-episode-23-08062013-4583511 (http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/click-season-2013-episode-23-08062013-4583511)

Edit: here's the BBC iPlayer link (not sure if it'll work outside the UK :( ): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b02xdtd4/Click_08_06_2013/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b02xdtd4/Click_08_06_2013/)


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: alani123 on May 02, 2014, 07:08:04 PM
The BBC's consumer tech programme, Click (formerly Click Online) apparently featured Bitcoin in an episode last year (I didn't see it, but this thread made me think of Click Online for the first time since I cancelled my TV license and stopped watching TV!): http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/click-season-2013-episode-23-08062013-4583511 (http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/click-season-2013-episode-23-08062013-4583511)

TV channels talking about bitcoin is not something new really. RT has been doing so since early 2011. It gained more attention later so to me media attention NOW is not that special. Still nice to hear that though.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: LMGTFY on May 02, 2014, 07:14:36 PM
The BBC's consumer tech programme, Click (formerly Click Online) apparently featured Bitcoin in an episode last year (I didn't see it, but this thread made me think of Click Online for the first time since I cancelled my TV license and stopped watching TV!): http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/click-season-2013-episode-23-08062013-4583511 (http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/click-season-2013-episode-23-08062013-4583511)

TV channels talking about bitcoin is not something new really. RT has been doing so since early 2011. It gained more attention later so to me media attention NOW is not that special. Still nice to hear that though.

I think it depends on the channel and the programme - the BBC is major; Click Online - not so much. It's more "popular science" than the equivalent programmes on other UK channels ("win all these sponsored goodies!") but it's still pretty low-brow and unloved/unwatched, the kind of programme the BBC makes in order to justify receiving TV license fee cash...

I'm pretty sceptical about media attention anyway - but I have fairly unorthodox views on Bitcoin and mass adoption (I don't think my grandmother being able to buy her groceries with BTC is a compelling use-case for Bitcoin).


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: CryptoPanda on May 03, 2014, 10:44:50 AM
I think you mean CNBC. It's available to watch online here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzDI2z72NE)

yes, but do we have it with better quality?


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: telepatheic on May 03, 2014, 10:52:40 AM
This is the original http://www.cnbc.com/id/101588166 but I don't think it is any better.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: CryptoPanda on May 03, 2014, 11:00:17 AM
This is the original http://www.cnbc.com/id/101588166 but I don't think it is any better.

CNBC airing 240p stuff in 2014. Are they mad?


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: telepatheic on May 03, 2014, 11:07:22 AM
Are they mad?

No, just saving money on bandwidth. The idea is you watch this stuff using a TV where they can make more money.


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: SelbyTsang on May 03, 2014, 11:29:52 AM
Are they mad?

No, just saving money on bandwidth.

CNBC was worried that millions of bitcoiner will go to their site to watch the documentary lol. :P


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: kodtycoon on May 05, 2014, 01:37:44 AM
rt is running a clip of a tech guy talking about bitcoin.. no real point to it.. other then to promote bitcoin really.. not attached to any headlines or anything. and rt get allot of viewers


Title: Re: Wasn't there BBC bitcoin documentary as well recently?
Post by: CryptoPanda on May 20, 2014, 06:10:03 PM
did the video came out with better quality somewhere?