Re: [backstage] DVD Region 2

2007-06-27 Thread David Greaves
Kim Plowright wrote: Here in the US, that is not the case. It is much harder to find such DVD players. Because they contravene the DMCA act? Possible but more likely because the 'popular' stuff is released on Region 1 and the yanks (as a mass market) are so insular they think there be

[backstage] BBC iPlayer Beta coming July 27

2007-06-27 Thread Dave Whitehead
Beta laumch of iPlayer has been announced http://digg.com/software/BBC_iPlayer_Beta_coming_July_27

Re: [backstage] iPlayer [the MS bit anyway] - a compromise proposal

2007-06-27 Thread Michael Sparks
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 09:27, Brian Butterworth wrote: 1. The existing iPlayer goes ahead as the BBC has developed; http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/06_june/27/iplayer.shtml Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Betteridge
I can't imagine that a Mac mini produces much heat... would something like that or the Zonbu be a solution?

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-27 Thread Kim Plowright
Mac mini - not so much heat LCD monitor / powerbrick for LCD monitor / powerbrick for macmini - quite a lot of heat. On 27/06/07, Ian Betteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't imagine that a Mac mini produces much heat... would something like that or the Zonbu be a solution? - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] iPlayer [the MS bit anyway] - a compromise proposal

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
Great.. can we do the other bit too? On 27/06/07, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 June 2007 09:27, Brian Butterworth wrote: 1. The existing iPlayer goes ahead as the BBC has developed;

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-27 Thread Andy
On 26/06/07, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, if I had been the fool in charge of it, let me assure you by now I would be taking legal action against your repeated public accusations of corruption and misuse of public funds by individuals within the BBC. Ah nuts, I must not have

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Loosemore
Quick question: if someone was to produce a Linux (or other OS) iPlayer style client and server application that provided DRM protection* based on time limiting and there was some level of country limiting** would the BBC use it? (I would actually be genuinely interested in an answer to this

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Forrester
Alright alright, Ok this is getting a little out of hand. think of this as a virtual slap :) Can we give this a rest for a while? There's a lot of other interesting things happening which are not being discussed. For example did you guys see Google's Image based news service -

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-27 Thread Christopher Woods
ooo, videos! _ From: Ian Forrester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 June 2007 18:26 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised Alright alright, Ok this is getting a little out of hand. think of this as a virtual slap :) Can we give this a

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:25 +0100, Ian Forrester wrote: I specially like the Chinese version - http://www.google.com/news?imv=1ned=cn Ironic that you can't get at it from China, really. :) -- dwmw2 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] DVD Region 2

2007-06-27 Thread Frank Wales
Kim Plowright wrote: Here in the US, that is not the case. It is much harder to find such DVD players. Because they contravene the DMCA act? IANAL, and certainly not across american law, but I thought it expressly forbade the circumventing of content locks? Playing a region 2 disk in North

RE: [backstage] DVD Region 2

2007-06-27 Thread Christopher Woods
DVD players are pretty easy to find multiregion and PAL/NTSC compatible, at least in Europe... I'm *sure* that if you go to the right place, a specialist hifi store or electronics dept, you could find em. Or order them online. With the upscaling players coming out, the PAL/NTSC issue is moot