Will we ever see HD freeview though? The bandwidth requirement would
be enormous.
On 17 Sep 2009, at 16:53, "Frankie Roberto"
<[email protected]> wrote:
2009/9/17 Christopher Woods <[email protected]>
Moreover, you just *know* that within months of any broadcast flag
implementation, the more creative technological tinkerers will have
subverted the flag entirely using commonplace/free equipment and
software. Like region coding, broadcast flags really are an exercise
in stupidity and corporate backslapping.
By the sounds of it, the main 'enforcement' mechanism of the
metadata compression/encryption isn't so much technological, as the
fact that you won't be able to use the "Freeview HD" logo, or be
listed on the Freeview website, without signing for a free licence
(which requires you to implement some as-yet-unspecified
restrictions). Which won't really stop free software from existing -
but may stop it from being a commercial success.
That said, I wonder how many people will really bother to upgrade
from Freeview to Freeview HD anyway - standard definition Freeview
seems good enough for most people (especially those with non-
enormous tellies). So the migration to Freeview HD will happen
slowly, as people upgrade their televisions as part of their natural
lifecycle. (Assuming that the signal doesn't get switched off).
Frankie
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