Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 26/03/2008, *Steve Jolly* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you're underestimating the difficulties. And ignoring the
costs. :-) Bear in mind that you can't make any changes that would
break the millions of installed Sky STBs.
On 27/03/2008, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 26/03/2008, *Steve Jolly* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you're underestimating the difficulties. And ignoring the
costs. :-) Bear in mind that you can't make any changes
On 27/03/2008, Adam Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:46 +, James Cridland wrote:
* Yes, yes, RealPlayer. I'm working on it, though, for radio. Expect
to see changes in May.
Does this mean we might finally get something similar to the streams
that are provided
On 26/03/2008, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The BBC Freesat boxes are under BBC control and
101 could be BBC (your region) One HD and 1 02 BBC (your nation) Two
HD.
Actually, Freesat boxes are ultimately under the control
of
Just to backup the point about the need for simplicity in the HD offer...
http://www.betanews.com/article/Analysts_US_consumers_like_HDTVs_better_than_HD_programming/1206484078
*Fully 41 percent of TV owners in the US now possess a high definition TV,
yet only 56 percent of those same consumers
As I pointed out before, it would only be the Sky HD boxes that
would need reprogramming. The Freesat boxes have not been released yet,
so they can be fixed.
Getting Sky to re-programme their set top boxes just to suit the BBC is
highly unlikely to happen. To be frank, it's
On 27/03/2008, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26/03/2008, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The BBC Freesat boxes are under BBC control and 101 could be BBC (your
region) One HD and 1 02 BBC (your nation) Two HD.
Actually, Freesat boxes are ultimately under the
On 27/03/2008, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I pointed out before, it would only be the Sky HD boxes that would
need reprogramming. The Freesat boxes have not been released yet, so they
can be fixed.
Getting Sky to re-programme their set top boxes just to suit the BBC is
Unless I'm very much mistaken, always using
pre-configured audio tracks - they just play out default audio when not
in use.
Is that to say that the boxes switch back to Audio 0 when
there is nothing on the AD track, or that the AD tracks are fed with the
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:45:52AM +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote:
I have no idea why Sky do this. Why on earth would I want to watch the SD
version of a channel if I can watch it in HD.
I don't know exactly how the Sky system works, but perhaps you want to
record it in SD to watch it on
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Let's assume that there is going to be a single transponder used for BBC
HD. Instead of just having a single stream of BBC HD, it has six
streams that usually occupy 3Mb/s each, leaving plenty for one of the
streams to be in HD at full bitrate.
To take just this
And I'm sure several people from box manufacturers would be
nodding their head with that.
Perhaps. However, I understood these boxes will come with
software that can be updated.
Yep. But can the hardware do what the software wants it to do?
On 27/03/2008, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:45:52AM +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote:
I have no idea why Sky do this. Why on earth would I want to watch
the SD
version of a channel if I can watch it in HD.
I don't know exactly how the Sky system
On 27/03/2008, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I'm sure several people from box manufacturers would be nodding their
head with that.
Perhaps. However, I understood these boxes will come with software that
can be updated.
Yep. But can the hardware do what the software wants
On 27/03/2008, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They seem to manage it OK when using systems like BBCi which can
change
transponder in the middle of a session! All the OpenTV apps can do
this...
perhaps MHEG5 isn't up to it?
It works, although we hide the transision which is not
Just in case you missed it, here's a nice positive peice about the
iPlayer...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2008/03/the_bbc_iplayer_a_convert_spea.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/26/digitalmedia.radio?gusrc=rssfeed=media
GNM hires Yahoo developer
Guardian News Media is set to expand its technology department with
the appointment of Matt McAlister, currently the director of Yahoo's
developer network in San Francisco.
McAlister
On 26/03/2008, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Rights issues actually mean we've nothing really to put onto BitTorrent
iPlayer uses P2P, why not bit-torrent. Does your secret rights-holder
agreement say Kontiki only? Would that not be against competiton law?
Anyone else find it odd
Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 27/03/2008, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:45:52AM +0100, Brian
Butterworth wrote:
I have no idea why Sky do this. Why on earth would
I want to watch the SD
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:10:03PM +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote:
I can't see the logic in that. If you have a HD box, you can replay the
HD content as SD. But why would you buy a HD box if you can't watch HD?
Perhaps you're recording a programme for someone who doesn't have a HD box
On 27/03/2008, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 27/03/2008, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:45:52AM +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote:
I have no idea why Sky do this. Why on earth would I want to watch
the SD
Hi everyone,
As you know Over The Air has now stopped taking reservations there¹s no
space left. However, we need 10 runners to work over the event.
The shifts are 12 hours each Friday 4th April 8am 8pm and Saturday 8am
7pm
Ideally I¹m after people who can do both days (it¹s paid work),
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else find it odd *ALL* the BBC rights holders are demanding
exactly the same thing? Sounds a lot like a Cartel to me. (I Am Not a
Lawyer)
They're not; we have a complicated rights situation which make things rather
more
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