Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Loosemore
On 22/06/07, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 15:21, Peter Bowyer wrote: Possibly everyone has decided to heed the suggestion that this topic is best dealt with elsewhere, leaving this list for its intended use. Without reading the text of the complaint, OFCOM is

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Gordon Joly
At 12:14 +0100 25/6/07, Tom Loosemore wrote: On 22/06/07, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 15:21, Peter Bowyer wrote: Possibly everyone has decided to heed the suggestion that this topic is best dealt with elsewhere, leaving this list for its intended use.

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Ian Betteridge
It wouldn't be hard to add something the market impact assessment. Something along the lines of: Microsoft already has a 90% market share, and the launch of iPlayer - a service available to about 40% of the UK population in total - will make sod-all difference either way. People aren't going to

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Andy
On 25/06/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OFCOM has no regulatory power over the BBC other than certain kinds of taste and decency of non-internet broadcasting. Are you sure? The communications act 2003 [1] grants them the power to: (c) power to institute and carry on criminal

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Bowden
The Act also states: (5) In performing their duty under this section of furthering the interests of consumers, OFCOM must have regard, in particular, to the interests of those consumers in respect of choice, price, quality of service and value for money.

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 25/06/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Act also states: (5) In performing their duty under this section of furthering the interests of consumers, OFCOM must have regard, in particular, to the interests of those consumers in respect of choice, price, quality of service

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Bowden
On 25/06/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Act also states: (5) In performing their duty under this section of furthering the interests of consumers, OFCOM must have regard, in particular, to the

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Ian Betteridge
On 25/06/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because the DVB-T standard is open and anyone can build hardware or software to it. MS DRM and KDM are not open standards, and anything that glues standards together to create a vertically integrated product is, by definition, only

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Ian Betteridge
On 25 Jun 2007, at 17:55, Brian Butterworth wrote: Ian, You are conflating the iPlayer with Freeview! No, I'm conflating methods of timeshifting television. The fact is that there are, and will continue to be, methods of time shifting television which are completely un-DRM'd. No one

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25/06/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/06/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could choice in this matter mean that iPlayer is available in one configuration on a TV, and also through a cable set top box? One product. Choice of methods. If the iPlayer did that