ITV have announced plans to charge ‘micropayments’ for people using their catch up service, starting in 2012. ITV Player was added to the PS3 TV catch up in 2010 along with Channel 4’s ‘4OD’.
The twitterverse has reacted as you would expect to the news, ‘Fantastically terrible decision’ is one comment, ‘Good luck with that one!’ is another.
It is rather odd that  ITV wish to start charging for ITV Player (complete with adverts) and yet Channel 4 – who also rely on advertising revenue – give us 40D on PS3 with no adverts at all.
Source: NMA
hazelam
it’s a pity the on demand figures don’t count towards the ratings, because itv would find theirs dropping precipitously after introducing this.
you know, honestly, i can’t remember the last time i watched a whole program on itv.
when i did it was probably just a film they were showing.
i watch more on channel five than i do itv.
i love csi. ^_^
incidentally, from what i’d read ted danson is gonna be in the next series when laurance fishburne leaves.
that surprised me.
Flash
LOL, bang goes ITV player.
skibadee
yep crazy idea.
willbuchanan
I certainly wouldn’t pay…I tried using ITV1player last night and it was laggy as all hell and not in the least user friendly – the complete opposite of 4oD and BBC iplayer
shields_t
ITV player holds so little interest to me, I hadn’t even noticed it had been added the XMB!
colossalblue
The only thing I watch on ITV is the football and even then I do nothing but moan about how bad the coverage is. On top of that, the ITVPlayer app on my iPad doesn’t work properly (only shows the beyond-awful ITV2, 3 and 4) because I’m in Northern Ireland where out ITV content is rebroadcast by a third party.
So ITV is basically terrible content, delivered terribly. Why would I want to pay?
MegaBonez
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *CATCHES BREATH* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ITV!
cc_star
As suspected, a lot of hot air about nothing…
The ITV Press Centre has now added on Twitter: “To clarify. Catch up on ITV Player will remain free. @ITV will be introducing a pay mechanism next year to trial other pay content.”
ljc1976
Pay them? I wouldn’t watch it if they paid me!
Out of interest I checked the reviews for the newly released ITV Player for Android. 2.5 stars and the general concensus is “it’s crap”.
gideon1451
I don’t understand why this is gaming news. Interesting, nonetheless, but not really to do with games?
The Lone Steven
If ITV want’s me to pay them to watch their awful programs.IMO. They can get stuffed. This is being greedy, i can understand if they didn’t have adverts but they do. This will fail. I hope the rest of them don’t follow suit and try this.:-/