Secondly, and this is the difficult bit, the BBC is committed to ensuring that public service content remains free to air i. But a form of content management is required to enable us to launch Freeview HD to audiences in early , so we have a simple choice; either we wait for a resolution to the copy protection debate or go ahead and launch Freeview HD and give UK audiences who can't or don't want to pay for subscription services a way to get HD.
We've said before that we are specifically avoiding encryption of the broadcast signal to ensure that the public service content remains free to air. Content protection gives content producers comfort to give consumers early and free access to more content, without jeopardising future revenue streams. Our preferred content management approach Huffman's Look-up tables as stated in our letter to Ofcom describes how using this method will allow us to deliver Freeview HD on time, with the least disruption to manufacturers, and the least restriction to audiences.
But it is important to stress that the technology places no restrictions whatsoever on copying standard definition content - nor recording and viewing any HD content stored on a PVR. Even in its most restrictive state it still allows one HD copy to be made to Blu-ray and unrestricted copies in SD and for most content there will be no restriction whatsoever on the number of Blu-ray copies permitted.
We want to make our content as accessible as possible but we have to balance this with the amount of content we have the ability to show.
We could have said no to the content owners' request and delayed the launch of Freeview HD, but we had to balance this with the fact that respecting the request for content protection should result in more programmes and hence a better viewing experience for our audiences.
We are confident that Freeview HD will be great, and you'll always be able to copy programmes for personal use. Most people will probably never know that any form of content management exists since they'll not be prevented from the normal home enjoyment or recording on PVRs, DVD and Blu-Ray recorders. The only actions that may be prevented, and only for certain programmes, are retransmitting the content in HD over the internet or, in some cases, from making more than one digital copy of the highest-value content onto Blu-ray.
Sign in or register to comment. More to the point, encrypting the look-up tables is tantamount to encrypting the content, as the latter is relatively meaningless without the former.
This is an attempt to wriggle out of the free-to-air obligations through a loophole, nothing more. Complain about this comment Comment number 1. Complain about this comment Comment number 2. Complain about this comment Comment number 3. Creating an entirely seperate programme schedule from the existing satellite HD channel would require a seperate service licence from the BBC Trust since it'd be a new channel , which would take at least six months, and hence create a considerable delay.
It's a simple matter of fact. Complain about this comment Comment number 4. Complain about this comment Comment number 5. So what does this mean in laymans terms? Complain about this comment Comment number 6. So, you admit that you were wrong on the timescale then since you're trying to change the subject.
Jolly good. Research has never been a strong point of the content protection is evil lobby. Bluntly, the Freeview and Freesat reciever markets are two very different things.
Complain about this comment Comment number 7. All drm systems are crackable. If copies can be made to blu-ray it is relativly easy as I suspect Slyfox would soon demonstrate. But the issue is whether it is worth the effort. It is debatable as to whether the terestrial transmissions can be called "HD" and viewers may get a better pictures with upscalled SD. So what is happening to satellite transmisions. The BBC is playing a dangerous game here.
Technially it would be fairly easy to turn such a system into full encryption not allowing any copying. This would make it fairly easy for the Government to sell off the BBC and make it a subscription channel. According to Greg Dyke the main reason the BBC has supported free to air was to make it impossible to for Government to get rid of the licence fee. There is very little original programming as well so I find I am now rairly watching BBC and so I think the licence fee should be abolished.
Complain about this comment Comment number 8. Complain about this comment Comment number 9. Complain about this comment Comment number In reply to Alexbennee you will need a new box. No current boxes or televisions support these standards. I honestly don't see any type of encryption or DRM stopping anyone determined enough to want to record something from doing so.
If it's stopping people recording and putting online your trying to stop, there are endless means and ways of recording and those people in particular probably know more tricks than most. It's exactly the same. First the timescale was "hotly debated". Then the timescale was right but the content could be changed. Then I pointed that was wrong and the timescale was right and the content couldn't be changed but Freesat already transmitted without this proposal.
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Replies 5 Views Jul 13, mrmchd. In the case of DVD Decrypter I've not used it much myself so I can't give exact instructions , it has options for how may times it'll try to keep reading bad sectors of a disc before it gives up, and an option to keep going while replacing the unreadable parts with dummy data. That may or may not give satisfactory results, depending on which section of video has unreadable bits. I'm pretty sure it also has some sort of "automatically ignore errors" option so it doesn't keep asking each time.
If you're not necessarily wanting to rip the entire disc just the individual episodes you might get lucky and find that solves the problem as the faulty area of the disc won't need to be read at all, or at worst you might get all of the episodes off intact except for one.
I don't use DVDFab due to it being horribly bloated crap, but I assume at least the paid version has an option to rip in "movie only" mode or to rip individual episodes. Neither program can handle discs with newer copy protections they're both no longer updated but they should be fine with BBC discs. You can rip individual episodes with DVD Shrink by opening the disc and using it's re-author mode. Drag a title from the right pane to the left, then use the backup function.
I think it's set to DVD5 by default. You won't be able to backup the DVD menu that way as you can when backing up the entire disc, but if you're wanting to rip the disc in order to re-encode it or repack the episodes into MKV files etc, then that won't matter.
Someone else may be able to give instructions for ripping individual episodes with DVD Decrypter. I can't remember off the top of my head and I don't have it installed. If you can try with a second or third drive, it can't hurt.
On quite a few occasions I've managed to rip all episodes from a disc by using multiple drives. While no single drive could read the whole disc, between them they managed to, although admittedly in your case it sounds like the discs might be unreadable in places, regardless of the drive.
Last edited by hollowman; 7th Nov at You will end up with a 'glitch' in the video where the data is missing, but it usually picks up all the rest of the data. If you can, try setting the ripping speed as low as possible. Try another DVD drive. Sometimes that's all it is. Want my help? Ask here! You can set it to 0 if the discs are brand new and not full of scratches. You can also set it to ignore all errors, if you don't see the setting just select ignore everytime DVDdecrypter will eventually offer to ignore all errors.
Depending on your drive, there may also be a setting for hardware read error retries; in DVDdecrypter it's under the drive settings not sure about the other one. You will be able to rip the discs faster, the video will glitch but it will play through. If you're lucky you won't lose too much. EDIT: I had an older version installed. I installed the "latest" version and it seems to offer more. Stay tuned DVDFab has a very good built-in "recoverer"
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