On Tue Jan 8 08:52:54 GMT 2019, CJB wrote:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6566501/BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals.html
From that:
to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime
... I am surprised it was not brought up in this discussion,
but these BBC "competitors" exclusively use (unbreakable)
DRM protected streams/downloads EVERYWHERE!
Channel 4 was the first commercial TV station to
switch to DRM protected streams ("Flash Access",
now renamed "Adobe Primetime"), to be soon followed
by Channel 5 (probably using MPEG-DASH with WV).
In the spring of last year, ITV switched to Widevine DRM
for their Live TV streams and to MPEG-DASH/ClearKey for
VOD (mobile streams still on HLSe "softer" DRM).
Towards the end of last year, another on-line UK TV
portal, UKTVPlay, switched to enhanced DRM schemes
(MPEG-DASH/WV, Fairlplay) and I am informed Ireland's
iPlayer equivalent,
https://beta.rte.ie/player/
has also switched to (uncrackable) DRM streams...
BBC had already imposed DRM on their (now closed)
BBC Store bought streams, and continue to do so in
their iPlayer Downloads (for PC) and BBC Sounds
Apps.
If the current industry trend is anything to go by,
I fear content providers/rights holders would ask for extended
protection to be implemented to their offerings, if they were
to OK the extended availability period...
Obviously I am not knowledgeable with regards
to rights negotiations, but is it only a matter for Ofcom
to agree upon the one-year-on-line availability proposal?
If affirmative, wouldn't the beeb have to renegotiate online
rights with content providers, for an increased price-tag
(eventually translated to an increased TV licence fee)?
Eventual DRM implementation on BBC online streams
is, for me, the only issue that might be get_iplayer related
(i.e. it would kill it :-( ).
Of course, if the proposal goes through without
such bad surprises, then GiP would've to be patched
to cater to the 365 days of available TV+radio programmes
Massive storage required for this
AFA GiP is concerned, only an increase would be observed
in the sizes of the cache files and some (slight) increase in the
time required to refresh them, especially when rebuilding
the one-year cache from scratch :-)
Regards
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