Re: [backstage] The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
2009/9/30 Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com Generate a mountain of e-waste, because manufacturers won't be able to produce set-top boxes that downsample the HD signal and feed it through a digital output to existing SD tuners and recorders. No idea what he's talking about here. If an STB

[backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones

2009-10-05 Thread Dan Brickley
Great news, phone fans! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8287239.stm One of the most common technologies for watching video on a computer will soon be available for most smartphones. Flash software is used to deliver around 75% of online video and is the key technology that underpins

Re: [backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones

2009-10-05 Thread Zen
Hopefully. HTML5 will kill off flash once and for all. Some hope! On 5 Oct 2009, at 14:19, Dan Brickley wrote: Great news, phone fans! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8287239.stm One of the most common technologies for watching video on a computer will soon be available for most

Re: [backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones

2009-10-05 Thread cisnky
Mate, Dream on about HTML 5 killing off Flash. HTML5 is a standards time bomb waiting to go off. 2009/10/5 Zen zen16...@zen.co.uk Hopefully. HTML5 will kill off flash once and for all. Some hope! On 5 Oct 2009, at 14:19, Dan Brickley wrote: Great news, phone fans!

Re: [backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones

2009-10-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Cisnky, Could you kindly elaborate? Adobe's recent aquisition makes me wonder if they are really behind Flash for the long term; that and the lack of engineering quality they put into it recently. I suspect HTML5 is going to pancake it, because there is a lot more money behind it than Adobe