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British TV Station Offers Downloads

Posted by timothy on from the put-your-license-to-work dept.

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."

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  1. Codecs by XanC · · Score: 5, Informative
    Maybe your mplayer plays them fine. My 64-bit mplayer's offerings are a bit more basic.

    Let's get some open codecs!

  2. We've got this in Iceland by hugsa · · Score: 5, Informative

    We've actually been able to download shows and news for a few years here in Iceland, both from RUV (state owned), Stod 2 and Skjar 1, both not owned by the goverment.

    And here are the proofs:
    RUV online:
    RUV

    Stod 2 online:
    Stod 2 (their web is really really bad..brace yourself)

    Skjar 1 online:
    Skjar 1

    --
    hugbunadur.is