On 3/29/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you can stream them on a mobile, it would be useful if they could be provided online in the same format (I mean, that's what you are doing anyway...)
Almost, except I imagine the Mobile Phone networks are pobably paying BBC Worldwide a not-inconsiderable amount of money for the rights to broadcast BBC content as part of their 'walled garden' offering - a cost that may or may not be passed on to the customer as a 'pay per view' service. In addition, putting the streams online would make them available *globally*, putting them on mobiles run by UK operators makes them available (for the most part) to the UK citizens who fund the BBC. Note: I'm not saying that this situation is a good thing, but that this is probably the reason why BBC content is available on mobile and not online for the time being. With the exception of a few providers, Mobile data services are closed, non-neutral networks, and, as such are very different from the 'proper' internet. This is probably why traditional 'rights-holders' are so keen on them. Cheers, Tim
