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BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog The BBC has said that it wants to be able to protect its TV listings and other service information for the HD channels it is due to start broadcasting on terrestrial Freeview later this year. Under the terms of its licence as a public service...
[September 16, 2009, 18:04]
Why not a freeview tuner?
Talkback Personally, I would buy a PDA with Freeview TV Tuner - or something like the HTC Universal. Two reasons: Where is the money to be made by the mobile operator. If it is free then the operator doesn't increase revenue - in fact they might lose...
[November 20, 2006, 8:56]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment @CA: Point of fact: if you don't have a device to receive broadcast signals, you don't need a licence. This is from the official website: You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they're being shown...
[September 21, 2009, 10:09]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment "You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV. It makes no difference what equipment you use - whether it’s a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD recorder or a TV set...
[September 22, 2009, 0:13]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment Quite honestly I wish the BBC would just crawl under a rock and die, bunch of over payed pompous self indulged biased unethical lob sided greedy bureaucratic lazy overpriced glutinousness pigs. That should be broke up and sold off to the private...
[September 16, 2009, 20:27]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment Gosh.I think it's great to have the only media outlet in the world (as far as I know) that has no brain dead intelligence insulting adverts. Sure the output has a long way to go. I do hope for better times when it comes to the the BBC.
[September 16, 2009, 23:35]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment OK CA, I think I get where you're coming from. Not sure I agree with every word of your first sentence. With reference to your second sentence, I think you will find that's been happening for a number of years now.
[September 17, 2009, 0:30]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment Well CA I think the BBC does excellent work. For your licence fee you get many TV channels, 7 national radio channels, many local radio channels, the BBC World Service, one of the best websites on the planet and many, many quality programs.
[September 17, 2009, 8:34]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment I don't have a either a set-top box or an HDTV, but do have a USB DVB-T adapter and an HD-capable monitor, and tend to watch Freeview on that occasionally. Anyway, I can't see myself recording shed-loads of HD Freeview content simply because I don...
[September 17, 2009, 9:26]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment Seems bizarre that they would want to add DRM to listings. Is there much of a download market for illegal schedules? Is there a Pirate Listings Bay site? Do teenagers spend all night and bandwidth secretly adding GBs to their illicit collections of...
[September 17, 2009, 10:40]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment The fact remains everyone in the UK do not get a choice of weather or not they want it or not, you don't even haft to have a TV in the house and still you haft to pay it, I mean Christ it wasn't until a few years ago they where still charging the...
[September 18, 2009, 21:32]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment This statement is trivially and demonstrably false: I have both Freeview and satellite TV, and both BBCs 3 and 4 are not broadcast until 7pm, PERIOD. "channels 3 & 4 don't start for the free view until the evening but are broadcast 24/7 on sat or...
[September 19, 2009, 0:10]
BT's Broadband TV to be delivered by Philips
Talkback Our Philips Freeview box has an Ethernet socket on the back, the manual just says "for future use". This would be good as our Freeview reception isn't the greatest. Was wondering if this could be related, I've always been tempted to plug it into my...
[October 27, 2005, 16:11]
'Free' digital TV arrives this week
News The BBC and its broadcasting partner, Crown Castle, will quietly launch what is intended to be a new chapter in digital television on Wednesday, in the form of Freeview -- the successor to the failed ITV Digital.
[October 28, 2002, 15:50]
ITV Digital customers get set-top box deal
News The liquidators for ITV Digital have said former customers of the bankrupt broadcaster will be allowed to keep their set-top boxes, which can now be used to view channels broadcast by Freeview -- the BBC-backed digital service.
[January 20, 2003, 13:05]
Five joins Project Canvas broadcasters
News Project Canvas — a joint venture between the BBC, BT and ITV, announced in December last year — will provide UK homes with access to IPTV via a broadband-enabled set-top box, in much the same way as Freeview and Freesat currently do with digital TV.
[July 30, 2009, 15:07]
AVC Broadband review
Reviews But in our case the notebook we were using was in our living room, where a Freeview box provides access to these things on a TV with a larger screen. Note that the Freeview TV service is not quite the same as you’d get with a Freeview box bought on...
[June 16, 2004, 9:35]
Virgin's first mobile TV handset sighted
Talkback Why hasn't anyone just put a freeview TV tuner into a phone? Would that not have made the easiest and most sense? It's not like with today's technology it could not be done, stop wasting your times and just create a normal receiver for the phone.
[August 16, 2006, 11:23]
Hmmm more confusion on the way
Talkback On Digital, Freeview, On Digital 2, Freeview 2, Onsat, and now this :S wish they'd just pick one for crying out load! They wouldn't be so flashy if they didn't have our money to blow bloody British Biased Corporation, I've never wanted to kick...
[July 30, 2009, 21:40]
BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog Comment I have a USB Freeview adapter connected to a Linux box to make a very handy PVR, so as far as I can see, putting content protection on iPhone downloads is like putting 3 security bolts and a portcullis on a very small back door when the front door...
[June 10, 2008, 9:10]
