Cory's piece is inaccurate in many respects - see this http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/09/freeview_hd_copy_protecti on_up.html
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kieran Kunhya Sent: 30 September 2009 17:37 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door >http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/29/bbc-hd-encryption > >Ok I know we talked about it before but here he (cory) is again, but >this time in the Guardian. > >Cheers, > >Secret[] Private[] Public[x] > >Ian Forrester >Senior Backstage Producer, BBC R&D >01612444063 | 07711913293 >[email protected] (here's hoping this works) While I don't support this obfuscation of SI information, a lot of the arguments in that article aren't particularly good or don't make sense. Also because one can't have a reasoned discussion in any newspaper comment section these days, I will make my point here. >>Break existing equipment, such as HD laptop cards that have open >>drivers. Because of DVB-T2, no such devices are on the market yet. >> Generate a mountain of e-waste, because manufacturers won't be able to >> produce set-top boxes that downsample the HD signal and feed it through >> a digital output to existing SD tuners and recorders. No idea what he's talking about here. If an STB could decode the H.264, why would downscaling be a primary function of the device? What digital output is he talking about? >> Freeze out British entrepreneurs, such as the manufacturers of the >> Promise TV, who produce video recorders that run on open source >> software. If anything the open source community will be the first to find a workaround. There are a lot of programs out there to read damaged transport streams - ITV HD on Freesat was slightly obfuscated as an h.222 stream but people made it work. BBC HD used MBAFF in H.264 and someone wrote a patch. The same will happen or people will just continue to use satellite. Kieran. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
