Re: Freeview HD recorders....when?

On 25 May, 08:56, Jim Lesurf <no...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <VA.00000911.00221...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Roderick Stewart <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <hte6ba$1e8...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Tobin wrote:
And some Panasonic Freeview-HD televisions allow you to add a USB
disk and record to it.  You can't transfer the recordings to
anything else though - until someone determines how they're
encrypted.
[...]
The manual warns that recordings will not be playable even on another
TV of the exact same model.
Wonderful. Technology that is *designed* not to work! I don't think I'll
be buying one.

Going off at a tangent...  :-)

The whole 'issue' of such 'digital rights management' <sic> is one of the
main reasons I have no wish to move to HD/BD. I object to paying companies
good money to become under their control.

For much the same reason I am deterred from buying commercial DVDs of films
by the way they try to force you to sit though 'nag screens' and control
your behavour. Why pay someone money to be forced to sit be treated as a
criminal or naughty child before you can actually watch what you paid for?

I am quite happy with the idea that I should pay the people who actually
make copyright material - actors, writers, composers, etc. They should be
able to earn a living from their work. What I object to is the way business
then tries to control my own actions and charge me for being treated as if
they owned *me*.

Similar for reasons why I personally prefer to have nothing to do with Sky,
MickySoft, etc.

FWIW in recent weeks I have been wondering: How much money would the UK
government, etc, save if they decided to cease buying paid-for software
like Windows and switched to Linux? In the process going over to also
requiring all software development they paid for to deliver fully commented
source code they could freely re-use, issue, and distribute so as to stop
us having to keep paying over and over for re-inventions of the wheels?

Similarly, for all applications that the file formats have to be openly
defined and users free to write their own software to create/edit/read such
formats and files.

If expanded to all bodies like schools, hospitals, local governments, etc,
I suspect that in the long run this would save us vastly more than cutting
down on 1st class travel by civil servants or moving around the
'consultants'. Or even by throwing the poor and ill into the streets. But I
doubt we will see it as the paid lobby people would engage in the usual mix
of 'fear and doubt' and various dubious tactics...

Maybe we should also require all sellers of computers to unbundle the price
of the OS and installed sofware so *all* purchasers even *know* they could
have a choice.

Radical, eh? Free and open competition in a 'free market' <sic>. Wow.  :-)

It would save money, but not for the reasons you suggest. Microsoft
would make their software available very cheaply (actually, it already
is!), or freely, to such establishments to prevent open source
becoming "important" in this way.

So the cost of software for such establishments would drop greatly,
but it would still all be Microsoft.

In the real world, the very few people who try to avoid Microsoft
power point, and Microsoft word, and insist on using one of the free
alternatives, end up looking foolish when it all goes wrong in public.

Cheers,
David.
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