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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. Top Gear by Vollernurd · · Score: 0, Troll

    "This car programme..."

    Do you mean The Jeremy Clarkeson Show? [Sniff] I remember the good ol' BBC days.

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  2. Re:First? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>>TV channel Five has said it will be the first UK broadcaster to offer parts of its shows for sale as legal downloads.

    A norwegian channel, http://www.nrk.no/ (click on NRK NETT-TV, between the ads) , already does what this article advertizes, I belive.

    Oh, and are they a *UK broadcaster* like the summary says? Like you quoted? Hmm?

  3. Re:same here, on PowerPC by Ilgaz · · Score: 1, Troll

    It looks like someone finds time between illegally copying windows media DLLs to mark me troll.

    like I fucking cared. MS bitch.