Re: [backstage] The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door
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 could decode the H.264, why would downscaling be a primary function of the device? What digital output is he talking about? With the Freesat boxes, the BBC HD and ITV HD channels only output the HD in HDMI, the other connections, including the HD composite signal, is blocked. This means you can't record anything HD onto another device in HD quality. I suspect the idea is that Freeview HD boxes will not be able to record some programmes. I guess there could be then some type of offical TopUp TV Anytime box that could have overnight-delivered premium content. This facility, like Top Up TV, won't work with generic receivers. IMHO it would be better to ban content that requires copy protection from the public airwaves and leave encrypted systems to the net. -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
[backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones
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 websites such as YouTube and Google Video. Until now, many smartphones and netbooks have used a light version of the program, because of the limited processing power of the devices. The new software is intended to work as well on a smartphone as a desktop PC. Adobe, the maker of Flash, said it should be available on most higher-end handsets by 2010, although Apple's iPhone would continue not to use the software. The sort of rich apps we now see being delivered on PCs will now be coming to the phone, Ben Wood, director of mobile research at analyst firm CCS Insight, told BBC News. You'll be able to access a lot of the cool stuff that web designers are coming up with. ... Apple anomaly ... The new software will be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year. Trial software for Google Android and the popular Symbian operating systems are expected to be available in early 2010. However, it will not be available for the Apple iPhone, according to Mr Muraka. We're going to need Apple's cooperation, he told BBC News. At the moment Safari (Apple's web browser) doesn't support any kind of plug-in [on the iPhone]. But we'd love to see it on there. Mr Wood said he thought that time would come soon. As momentum builds, I think Apple will have little choice but to embrace it [Flash], he said. Watch this space. Apple did not respond to requests for comment. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones
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 smartphones. Flash software is used to deliver around 75% of online video and is the key technology that underpins websites such as YouTube and Google Video. Until now, many smartphones and netbooks have used a light version of the program, because of the limited processing power of the devices. The new software is intended to work as well on a smartphone as a desktop PC. Adobe, the maker of Flash, said it should be available on most higher-end handsets by 2010, although Apple's iPhone would continue not to use the software. The sort of rich apps we now see being delivered on PCs will now be coming to the phone, Ben Wood, director of mobile research at analyst firm CCS Insight, told BBC News. You'll be able to access a lot of the cool stuff that web designers are coming up with. ... Apple anomaly ... The new software will be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year. Trial software for Google Android and the popular Symbian operating systems are expected to be available in early 2010. However, it will not be available for the Apple iPhone, according to Mr Muraka. We're going to need Apple's cooperation, he told BBC News. At the moment Safari (Apple's web browser) doesn't support any kind of plug-in [on the iPhone]. But we'd love to see it on there. Mr Wood said he thought that time would come soon. As momentum builds, I think Apple will have little choice but to embrace it [Flash], he said. Watch this space. Apple did not respond to requests for comment. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones
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! 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 websites such as YouTube and Google Video. Until now, many smartphones and netbooks have used a light version of the program, because of the limited processing power of the devices. The new software is intended to work as well on a smartphone as a desktop PC. Adobe, the maker of Flash, said it should be available on most higher-end handsets by 2010, although Apple's iPhone would continue not to use the software. The sort of rich apps we now see being delivered on PCs will now be coming to the phone, Ben Wood, director of mobile research at analyst firm CCS Insight, told BBC News. You'll be able to access a lot of the cool stuff that web designers are coming up with. ... Apple anomaly ... The new software will be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year. Trial software for Google Android and the popular Symbian operating systems are expected to be available in early 2010. However, it will not be available for the Apple iPhone, according to Mr Muraka. We're going to need Apple's cooperation, he told BBC News. At the moment Safari (Apple's web browser) doesn't support any kind of plug-in [on the iPhone]. But we'd love to see it on there. Mr Wood said he thought that time would come soon. As momentum builds, I think Apple will have little choice but to embrace it [Flash], he said. Watch this space. Apple did not respond to requests for comment. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- --- Anthony Onumonu - Blog www.cisnky.com Twitter www.twitter.com/cisnky - Mobile: +44 (0) 7920 10 25 35 -
Re: [backstage] BBC NEWS | Technology | Flash moves on to smart phones
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 can muster, being a single vendor, and the engineering quality from browser developers is better. Silverlight is likely to last longer since its sole backer is, ahem, more tenacious, but even then, well, we shall see :-) Regards, Dave On 5 Oct 2009, 5:47 PM, cisnky cis...@gmail.com wrote: 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:... -- --- Anthony Onumonu - Blog www.cisnky.com Twitter www.twitter.com/cisnky - Mobile: +44 (0) 7920 10 25 35 -
