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Dcorking bookmarked on 2008-03-14 Culture Wi-Fi Digital video Cellular phones

This is only a bit of fun for some coders, as serious TV fans are already downloading DRM-free video directly from the Freeview broadcasts.

All the same, this article, and the linked script, demonstrate why the technical means to allow download to iP

  • The only method that they offer for other platforms requires proprietary software (and while Flash works on x86 Linux, it’s very flaky). Yet when the iPhone doesn’t support this tied-down system, they abandon their previous caution and go right ahead with an unrestricted version.

This link has been bookmarked by 4 people . It was first bookmarked on 12 Apr 2008, by Richard Sheppard.

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  • 14 Mar 08
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    David Corking

    This is only a bit of fun for some coders, as serious TV fans are already downloading DRM-free video directly from the Freeview broadcasts.

    All the same, this article, and the linked script, demonstrate why the technical means to allow download to iP

    Culture Wi-Fi Digital video Cellular phones

    • The only method that they offer for other platforms requires proprietary software (and while Flash works on x86 Linux, it’s very flaky). Yet when the iPhone doesn’t support this tied-down system, they abandon their previous caution and go right ahead with an unrestricted version.