Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ofcom balks at Beeb's HD DRM dream

By Bill Ray
Posted in Music and Media, 9th November 2009 15:24 GMT

Ofcom has told the BBC it will not allow the broadcaster to mandate DRM on HD, at least not yet, following overwhelming response to its two-week consultation.The regulator has written to the BBC explaining that before it will permit the Beeb's encoding of programme information, it wants to know more about the "anticipated benefits to citizens and consumers" as well as how the BBC intends to "address the potential disadvantages to citizens and consumers". But there's not a lot of time left before Freeview HD starts broadcasting at the end of the year.

Read the full story here :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/09/bbc_ofcom/

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