that's why there's a public consultation see also this from April http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/04/welcome_to_some_new_initi als_d.html
________________________________ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Scot McSweeney-Roberts Sent: 30 September 2009 18:55 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 18:21, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: 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 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/09/freeview_hd_copy_protect i%0Aon_up.html> Is there any explanation out there of how huffman lookup tables provide "content management"? I'd like to have a better idea of what exactly is being proposed and what the effect will be. I think the statement "no existing Freeview boxes will be affected by this whatsoever" near the top of that article is a bit of a Jedi mind trick. Of course no freeview box on the market will be affected by encryption/encryption-like techniques that might be used with DVB-T2, but that's not the point. The point is that with DVB-T transmissions people have been able to do what ever they want with them and I'm guessing that the messing about with lookup tables on HD transmissions will put a stop to that. If that's the case, then I think there should be some public debate about it. Scot
