RE: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

[Andrew Bowden]

 



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        Given there are no companies that have both unencrypted and
unencrypted channels on the EPG, it would still seem th  at rule is part
of Sky's contacts...

Sky have unencrypted and encrypted channels - Sky News is Free to Air
:o)
 
I'm also going to presume you meant subscription and non-subscription
channels as well, as some regional variations of ITV1 are also encrypted
because they don't sit on Astra 2D, and due to legacy contractual
issues, there are free to air and free to view versions of some Channel
4 owned channels.
 
I'm not entirely sure how much FTV channels (FTA and FTV could be said
to be the satellite version of freedom of speech and beer :) have to pay
for EPG fees, but they do have to pay for the encryption - when the BBC
went in the clear, it saved enough money from not paying encryption, to
pay for all the missing regional variations to be broadcast.  



        This is why, for example, Five can't just jump onto Freesat,
because it has to do Fiver and Five US at the same time!

I suspect Five have a blanket deal that says all their channels are FTV
- CHannel 4 certainly had something on those lines.