The Guardian reports that Channel 4 is to offer more of its back catalogue as free, streamed, on-demand, from July. The impressive 4,000 hours on offer (if you watched two hours a night, it would take 5 years to catch-up with everything) will include Brass Eye, The Camomile Lawn and Father Ted, Queer As Folk, Shameless, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Ali G and Teachers.
It's a clear incentive for the consumer to stop buying tv series DVDs (though they'll still be needed for US imports) and finally get round to connecting the pc to the tv; for cash-strapped Channel 4, one can only assume that the financial team have a strategy to get some revenue out of the service.
And it might help the BBC, who are currently held to a seven-day limit on I-Player catch-up.
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