[dustmite]

I suppose this is where I have to admit I spend all my time when I watch e4, to watching the two streams via e4 Interactive. The size of the stream's don't bother me, and even better, the chances are if both of the feeds are in the same area if one sound-dips the other probably hasn't. I'm certainly not complaining, though these housemates, particularly Gos, seem to have an addiction to a particular four letter word beginning with 'F'. Sigh.

This all said, when I'm not watching via e4-interactive, the bar absolutly drives me stir crazy (not that I'm already crazy...). However I guess, at the end of the day, we do have to accept that BB costs x amount of money to stage each year and as Endermol, Channel Four Television Corporation and 4 Ventures Limited are companies, money making is going to be one of the priorities for them. If C4 and e4 decided to broadcast a show for non-profit reasons, or just to please the hard-core fans, it would prove an hurrendously expensive mistake. But I'm not showing pro-bar bias... we just happen to live in a capitalist world, and we have to admit that we're watching a commercial television network, so.

Sigh, I hate sounding pessimistic... but such is the world that we live in.

And as PPP does identify, at least we have e4, for those that can't access e4 interactive, or find the streams to small, at least you still get to see 2/3 more than those without e4. Sure, we subscribe to a package that means we pay extra money for e4, which entitles us to access e4, it doesn't mean that "we won't be subjected to adverts, or to gimmics, or anything else that means the television company makes (more) money". I wonder if anyone has the profits for BB 1, BB 2 and BB 3, compared with how much they spend in stageing, production costs, etc. I'd be quite facinated to read that... and also, I'd love to know just how much C4 pays Endermol.

Marky