This week more of a follow up to last weeks post with a bent around the use of things such as my Chromebook rather than any external box although you can "cast" to Chromecast or use ye olde usb to hdmi to connect the Chromebook to the tv if you wish.
What isn't generally understood is because of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its Act, because you cannot collect data from children lawfully when using any streamed tv service on free to air channels you do not need to create an account to access them.
Just click on the programs and tell it you have a license if they ask and it all starts to play
This comes into children's programming because as most UK people would be aware the BBC and ITV originally started out producing programming for children that was shown on the regular channels before we switched off our analogue tv system in 2012.
Around 2002 what had been launched in 1985 as a branded block of programming for children entitled "CBBC" (Children's BBC) became a separate channel to which after 2012 much of the BBC children's output moved over to exclusively.
The output for those up to Seven years of age became Cbeebies (Children's BBC for infants).
When the iPlayer, the BBC only streaming service launched online those two channels had their own presence and the easiest way of accessing is via their own tabs which lists programs such as Blue Peter as well as having an option for "linear" timetabled tv channel viewing as we did with tv in the past when it was tune in at 5pm or miss out!
Itv expanded its output into a dedicated children's channel Citv, (Children's ITV) that runs throughout the day and that does include the new version of the seventies classic How! show apart from other shows and bought in cartoons.
My5 is the streaming portal for the whole Channel Five group but the main value from my point of view is the Milkshake block that includes shows like Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig which you can select to watch episodes of.
This enables you to put together with any paid for streamed service by making a mini list of the portals, a set of channels you can watch in HD or if you have a older spare Chromebook (or laptop) dedicate to tv which you can set to a height you can watch from the floor just like you did free from anything too grown up.
If like me you've good internet and Wifi, it's easier than adjusting the "rabbits ears" antenna we used to do!
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