[backstage] Digital Economy Bill
A glimmer of hope ? BT and TalkTalk may go to court to try and overturn the Digital Economy Act - passed just before Parliament was dissolved for the election. Two of the largest ISPs in the UK want the High Court to confirm that the Act is legal and that disconnecting persistent file sharers does not infringe basic rights. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/08/digital_economy_repeal/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Digital Economy Bill
Bad new as well I just came across the following: Our content protection requirements have to cater for the widest possible number of content providers, including giving reassurance to those looking to support pay-per-view and subscription access to film, said Canvas's chief technology officer Anthony Rose. While it considered letting broadcasters pick their own DRM providers, Canvas decided everyone taking part should use the same system, opting for open-standards based Marlin. Developed over the past five years by Intertrust, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and Sony, Marlin is used widely in Japan and by Sony for its PlayStation Network. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359287/project-canvas-looks-to-open-standards-for-drm - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Big Game Fishing
If at first you fail: I have re-submitted a modified (shortened and simplified) complaint to the BBC and look forward to learning about the limits of my understanding of the law with regard to public service obligations the human rights act and the copyright design and patents act. The competition part has gone to the OFT, but the subject is not the BBC. This time I have recorded a submit ID from the final URL - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)
I posted a while back asking about why iPlayer videos start loud then get quieter a few seconds later... It's hard to hear with most materal, but this programme exhibits the effect beautifully: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kntl1/The_Birth_of_British_Music_Han del_The_Conquering_Hero/ Listen to how the limiter suddenly kicks in after 1/2 seconds, bringing the overall gain down. The audio level at the start is fine, whereas afterwards it's just too quiet. Cue needlessly having to crank the gain on the computer to compensate. the It seems pointless having to constantly ride the gain when playing a new piece of footage - and it can often deafen you if you have your speakers or headphones turned up to an appropriate level from watching a previous programme! Could this be looked at by someone in the iPlayer team responsible for encodes? Seems like a very odd, pointless oversight and it's affected every video I've watched for at least six months, if not longer. Ta :-) - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
