In Belgium lwa must in the future may have to be paid for the flush of commercial breaks from a recorded television program. That seemed to Tuesday, the conclusion of ceos of media companies and distributors. A majority in parliament for the measure.
The parties in the Flemish parliament, CD&V, sp.a and N-VA, who together have the majority, have proposed a bill that distributors, such as kabelaars, mandatory for broadcasters to ask permission to functionality on linear tv broadcasts to add, reports The Standard. That would mean that providers of digital television permission to the stations to ask for pvrs, recording functionality to the broadcasts ‘add’, to their customers to be able to deliver.
There has existed for some time a disagreement between a number of Flemish broadcasters and providers of digital television. The broadcasters argue that the providers their product is ‘broken’ because of the via the epg to would be easy to program a pvr to record. Therefore, the commercial tv stations, say that advertising revenue. Also the “delayed-service’ would be for a decline in advertising revenues. Flemish broadcasters want Telenet more money will pay because of the provision of the delayed viewing.
The Vlaamse Media Maatschappij, a company that has a number of television and radio stations possession, proposes two types of decoders on the market. A cheap decoder would not have the ability to advertising by rinsing, while a more expensive decoder that possibility should have. According to Telenet, the cost of the current decoder 400 euro and increase the cost even further if there is more than software functionality must be built in commercial breaks not skip a beat. It is unclear how foreign service providers, such as Google TV and Netflix on the measures will react, according to Telenet, it is far from certain that they will adhere to the provisions in the bill will interfere.