[backstage] BBC.co.uk not working

2008-10-17 Thread zen16083
BBC.co.uk not working?

RE: [backstage] BBC.co.uk not working

2008-10-17 Thread John O'Donovan
The News and sport sites are OK but there might be some intermittent problems elsewhere. Could you let me know which ISP you are on? Cheers, jod From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 10/17/2008 07:24 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] BBC.co.uk not working

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
I've lost all my listing feeds from bbc.co.uk/ schedules overnight and I couldn't get to Robert Peston's blog earlier. 2008/10/17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] BBC.co.uk not working? -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002

Re: [backstage] BBC.co.uk not working

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
John, At home, I'm on Be, I couldn't listen to BBC Radio 5 Live this morning. I could not Wake Up To Money! Not sure about from my server's ISP, here's the traceroute... traceroute: Warning: bbc.co.uk has multiple addresses; using 212.58.224.138 traceroute to bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138), 30

RE: [backstage] BBC.co.uk not working

2008-10-17 Thread John O'Donovan
Thanks - proving to be an intermittent issue but this helps. The service desk are looking into it. jod From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Butterworth Sent: Fri 10/17/2008 08:47 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC.co.uk not

Re: [backstage] BBC.co.uk not working

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
Everything seems to be OK now :D 2008/10/17 John O'Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] The News and sport sites are OK but there might be some intermittent problems elsewhere. Could you let me know which ISP you are on? Cheers, jod From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

RE: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Kevin Hinde
Iain Wallace wrote: So it looks like C4 is shareholder-free. Wow, every day is a school day. I never realised that. Even so, none of my money is going towards Channel 4 so I don't feel like it's any of my business how they digitally distribute their programming. In a sense, some of

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/10/17 Kevin Hinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iain Wallace wrote: So it looks like C4 is shareholder-free. Wow, every day is a school day. I never realised that. Even so, none of my money is going towards Channel 4 so I don't feel like it's any of my business how they digitally

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Phil Lewis
Doesn't the BBC also derive some of it's funding from non-license fee activities? If this is the case then C4 and the BBC are both indirectly funded by the tax payer and commercial activities although in different proportions and to a different scale. Since most residents are TV license payers

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/10/17 Phil Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doesn't the BBC also derive some of it's funding from non-license fee activities? If this is the case then C4 and the BBC are both indirectly funded by the tax payer and commercial activities although in different proportions and to a different scale.

RE: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Andrew Bowden
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth 2008/10/17 Phil Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dawkins knows why UKTV uses SSSL encryption on it's satellite services, free to air channels get all the

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Frank Wales
Andrew Bowden wrote: Even for smaller channels, there are benefits to being encrypted, such as reduced EPG listing fees. It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them? The reason being...? -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion

RE: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Andrew Bowden
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Bowden wrote: Even for smaller channels, there are benefits to being encrypted, such as reduced EPG listing fees. It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them? The reason being...? Sky effectively subsidise certain costs for

RE: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Gareth Davis
Frank Wales wrote: Andrew Bowden wrote: Even for smaller channels, there are benefits to being encrypted, such as reduced EPG listing fees. It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them? The reason being...? The same company provides EPG and encryption

[backstage] subtitles / closed caption data?

2008-10-17 Thread Dan Brickley
Hi folks What's the latest news w.r.t. chances of getting access to BBC subtitle / closed caption data via nice clean API? Particularly for news content... thanks for any pointers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread ST
Quoting Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andrew Bowden wrote: Even for smaller channels, there are benefits to being encrypted, such as reduced EPG listing fees. It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them? The reason being...? Sky give you a discount. -- ST

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/10/17 Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank Wales wrote: Andrew Bowden wrote: Even for smaller channels, there are benefits to being encrypted, such as reduced EPG listing fees. It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them? The reason being...?

Re: [backstage] subtitles / closed caption data?

2008-10-17 Thread Phil Lewis
I'm not sure about a 'nice clean API' but I wrote up a wiki doc on downloading the iPlayer closed caption data at: http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/IPlayer_TV#Subtitles Regards Phil Lewis On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 16:10 +0100, Dan Brickley wrote: Hi folks What's the latest news w.r.t. chances

RE: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Andrew Bowden
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Given there are no companies that have both unencrypted and unencrypted channels on the EPG, it would still seem th at rule is part of Sky's contacts... Sky have unencrypted and encrypted

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/10/17 ST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andrew Bowden wrote: Even for smaller channels, there are benefits to being encrypted, such as reduced EPG listing fees. It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them? The reason being...?

RE: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Gareth Davis
Brian Butterworth wrote: Given there are no companies that have both unencrypted and unencrypted channels on the EPG, it would still seem that rule is part of Sky's contacts... This is why, for example, Five can't just jump onto Freesat,

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/10/17 Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth Given there are no companies that have both unencrypted and unencrypted channels on the EPG, it would still seem th at rule is part of Sky's contacts... Sky

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/10/17 Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Butterworth wrote: Given there are no companies that have both unencrypted and unencrypted channels on the EPG, it would still seem that rule is part of Sky's contacts... This is why, for example, Five can't just jump onto Freesat, because