British TV Station Offers Downloads

Richard W.M. Jones writes "Remember how the British just love to download TV? Well, British terestrial TV channel five has announced that it will become the first to offer TV programmes to download legally. Except that they don't quite seem to get it yet. They are offering here some videos from this car programme which apparently didn't quite make it to air, for the princely sum of £1.50 (about $3), in DRM'd WMV 10 format (mplayer plays them fine). Still, it's a start, and it looks like they're just testing the water. Hopefully they won't take the lack of response as 'proof' that there's no demand. There's more about this at the BBC's website."

Comments

5th gear!

[seringen]

maybe someone should tell them that some trannys have six gears, and maybe they'd respond that they're not going to fall for that spinal tap rouse

Re:5th gear!

[Anonymous Coward]

The best bit is when they take a dig at the other side:

"This Porsche is a bit lethargic in top gear, it doesn't really appear to be going anywhere. Leave it in fifth gear though and you get a whole different experience...."

Re:5th gear!

[lisaparratt]

And here was me thinking most trannies want to get rid of the gear stick they've already got!

Hey

[chiapetofborg]

Where is Star Trek Enterprise, I can't find it anywhere on their site

Re:"They don't get it"

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't sell something to someone who can get it for themselves for free.

Better tell Evian.

(Why the needless attack on Brits?)

Re:Mod this one down too

[ziggy_zero]

No, I think it's just to get the "the real goal is to get the one posting the 'spam warning' modded up" post modded up!

Re:"They don't get it"

[rizole]

Bottle of water anyone?

Re:CH 5

[iainl]

That's not fair. What actually happens is that some Top Gear Rejects who got the sack because they refused to cut down on their sexist-innunedo-rate drive cars quickly, before going on to demonstrate why driving a car quickly and presenting a car programme are two completely seperate skills, and they've got bugger all of the latter one.

Meanwhile, Clarkson, May and Hammond are frankly average drivers at best, and leave that stuff to The Stig before doing their real jobs of entertaining me for 60 minutes.

Re:"They don't get it"

[asliarun]

Whoa! Talk about a *bold-faced* lie.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Re:"They don't get it"

[Gordonjcp]

hence the polished white tombstone-like teeth of many americans

... which are so weakened by whitening treatments that they cannot chew anything tougher than soggy bread and reclaimed meat pulp - hence the popularity of McDonalds.