On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:26:21AM +0100, Christopher Woods wrote:
The quality was abysmal though, and RealVideo? Urgh.
The simile employed in the DbD article is a little inaccurate, the more I
think about it; the BBC's choice of MS-based systems for its iPlayer
platform is more like their
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:54:49PM +0100, Adam Leach wrote:
Andy wrote:
On 29/07/07, mike chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Options 3, Buy an off the shelf solution and use it. Bonus points if
the people whose content your licensing are happy with it and will
endemnify you against
Not that I'm condoning the choice, personally I'll always prefer an agnostic
system, but, well, maybe the BBC were just realists when it came to the
practicalities of development cost versus ROI from creating versions for
(EXTREMELY) minority OSes? I mean, come on, hands up who here on the list
(EXTREMELY) minority OSes? I mean, come on, hands up who here on the
list uses Linux as their primary OS.
And me. And as such I just accept that if I want to watch any channel's
output on-demand, there's a box in my living room that will capture it
for me with the minimum of configuration.
Christopher Woods wrote:
I mean, come on, hands up who here on the list
uses Linux as their primary OS.
Me.
And (FWIW) my wife (her choice).
I'm three years sober ;)
David
PS We can't even dual-boot anymore.
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On 01/08/07, robl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that I'm condoning the choice, personally I'll always prefer an
agnostic
system, but, well, maybe the BBC were just realists when it came to the
practicalities of development cost versus ROI from creating versions for
(EXTREMELY)
On 1 Aug 2007, at 12:40, David Greaves wrote:
Christopher Woods wrote:
| I mean, come on, hands up who here on the list
| uses Linux as their primary OS.
I use Linux and OSX (also unsupported as of now).
I have a Vista box which is connected in an office, where I wouldn't
want to use it,
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And me!
It's a fatally flawed argument to suggest that because the majority of
computers now are Windows based, then the BBC can make a good case for
using a Microsoft system for distribution. With the Vista bugs being a
case in point, the BBC isn't tying itself to a standard, it's tying
On 01/08/07, Paul Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The choice of the BBC not to use these is almost certainly because of the
ability to hack them. Imagine if they released a system based on something
open and it got hacked within 3 days?
There's already a hacked version of iPlayer, it's
On 31/07/07, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 19:50, Dave Crossland wrote:
There are efforts to make unauthorised sharing of television as easy
as possible though, such as http://www.rulecam.net/ted/ and this makes
a mockery of highly restricted systems that
On 01/08/07, Paul Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are times when I
think that the Linux community expects everything for nothing, and if it's
not forthcoming that a company is either stupid or short sighted or
similar.
No, the software freedom movement doesn't expect anything for
At 04:26 +0100 1/8/07, Christopher Woods wrote:
The quality was abysmal though, and RealVideo? Urgh.
The simile employed in the DbD article is a little inaccurate, the more I
think about it; the BBC's choice of MS-based systems for its iPlayer
platform is more like their choice to broadcast in
On 8/1/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(EXTREMELY) minority OSes? I mean, come on, hands up who here on the
list uses Linux as their primary OS.
And me. And as such I just accept that if I want to watch any channel's
output on-demand, there's a box in my living room that will
On 01/08/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not advocating eye patches and peg legs here, but personally I don't see
a moral difference between getting something that's available on demand free
from iPlayer via other means. That could be a PVR, or it could be getting it
from a
On 01/08/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/08/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not advocating eye patches and peg legs here, but personally I don't
see
a moral difference between getting something that's available on demand
free
from iPlayer via other
On 01/08/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maybe the BBC were just realists when it came to the
practicalities of development cost versus ROI from creating versions for
(EXTREMELY) minority OSes? I mean, come on, hands up who here on the list
uses Linux as their primary OS.
me as
[New thread]
I'm getting the same on my Mac Pro, booted in XP SP2 - 'Sorry,
something's wrong' even though all boxes are ticked.
Will have a look at the browser's ident. If anyone wants to send me the
exe, I'd be very grateful. I have a login and all, so I don't think
there's anything wrong
Blimey, my last reply did stir it up (which is great, exactly what I wanted
to see, got some really good answers out of people.) I just *knew* that the
ratio of Linux users on this list would be higher than average though :D
(incidentally, which flavours of Linux do people favour on here? When I
On 8/1/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With regards to worldwide takeup, I too thought the iPlayer was a UK-only
thing, but I've heard rumblings about it becoming a paid-for service outside
our borders in the future (I know of no ETA though). Don't know as to the
authenticity
On 01/08/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/08/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/08/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not advocating eye patches and peg legs here, but personally I don't
see
a moral difference between getting something that's
Calm down dear, it's only a mailing list.
What's wrong with discussing the (faint) possibility that it may happen
(though most likely won't) in the future?
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