OT. Playing American Blue ray discs in UK do you do it?

"David" wrote in message ...
It is a real shame that equipment that has the iplayer is limited to the
BBC.
Regards
David
++++++++++++++
I think you mean it's a shame that iPlayer is limited to the BBC station,
and I totally agree.

My experience of iPlayer is that it is far more reliable and happily works
with far worse network conditions than the other players. Also, having a
single player format would make so much more sense than having competing
(and often poor) alternatives.

Presumably it would be simple to move content to the iPlayer once all the
various contractual agreements were signed, which makes one wonder why the
BBC has not cross-licenced this feature to other stations in order to raise
revenue.

Paul DS.

On May 21, 10:37*am, "Paul D Smith" wrote:
having a
single player format would make so much more sense than having competing
(and often poor) alternatives.

YouView?

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

On Tue, 21 May 2013 08:28:29 +0100
Roderick Stewart wrote:

On Tue, 21 May 2013 07:57:31 +0100, Lobster
wrote:

snip

Luckily I don't need internet services on my Blu-Ray player as I
already have that elsewhere, so it doesn't need to be connected to
anything other than the TV set and the hi-fi to do its job. It seems a
lot of devices are now equipped for internet access whether they need
it or not, even TV sets. I just use my TV set for displaying pictures
and the hi-fi system for the sound, as I have for many years. I have a
computer for network and internet services, and I just use the disk
player for playing disks. Maybe that's a bit old fashioned, but I can
do everything I need to do and I know which box does what.

Rod.

It may be old-fashioned, but it's the way I like things myself. And I
don't have a Blu-Ray Player, either. If I want to watch something saved
on the PC, but on the TV, I just connect the two with an HDMI cable.
If others want something different, fine, but not everybody wants the
ultimate system.
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Davey.

In article , Paul D Smith
wrote:
"David" wrote in message ... It is a
real shame that equipment that has the iplayer is limited to the BBC.
Regards David ++++++++++++++ I think you mean it's a shame that iPlayer
is limited to the BBC station, and I totally agree.

My experience of iPlayer is that it is far more reliable and happily
works with far worse network conditions than the other players. Also,
having a single player format would make so much more sense than having
competing (and often poor) alternatives.

Presumably it would be simple to move content to the iPlayer once all
the various contractual agreements were signed, which makes one wonder
why the BBC has not cross-licenced this feature to other stations in
order to raise revenue.

I'm not sure the BBC 'own' the iPlayer in the sense that it would be
required for that. They have to buy in the software and may not even see
the source code. So the content copyright(s) may not be the only factor.

Slainte,

Jim

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On 21/05/2013 10:50, Richard Russell wrote:
On May 21, 10:37 am, "Paul D Smith" wrote:
having a
single player format would make so much more sense than having competing
(and often poor) alternatives.

YouView?

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/




wasn't it project kangaroo that wanted to do just that?- and ofcom shot
it down as anti-competetive.

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That fly.... Is your magic wand.

On Tue, 21 May 2013 01:15:48 -0700 (PDT), Richard Russell
wrote:

I just use my TV set for displaying pictures

I couldn't imagine *not* having iPlayer on our TV now. Fortunately we
have three attached devices - a BluRay player, a Humax PVR and a Wii U
games console - which are internet-connected and can all do iPlayer.

Yes, iPlayer is very handy. I've got it on the media centre PC which
is connected to the TV, and also on the Freeview HDD recorder. I can't
remember whether it was one of the internet things the TV could access
on its own, but when I experimented with a temporary ethernet
connection to it shortly after I bought it, I found that everything it
did with the internet was excruciatingly slow, so I decided not to buy
the special expensive wireless dongle and just use the PC.

Rod.

Brian Mc wrote:
Adrian wrote:
I bought an American Blu-ray player from amazon.com with shipping and taxes
it cost less than the equivalent player in the UK.

It was less than £40. It was delivered by a carrier there was nothing more
to pay on arrival.

Many carrriers (DHL and FedEx for exmaple) will bill you up to a few months
later! Unlike the Post Office they don't require payment before delivery!

Well I've had it over a year so I don't think that's likely now.
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Hate the belief, love the believer.

"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
...

On Tue, 21 May 2013 01:15:48 -0700 (PDT), Richard Russell
wrote:

I just use my TV set for displaying pictures

I couldn't imagine *not* having iPlayer on our TV now. Fortunately we
have three attached devices - a BluRay player, a Humax PVR and a Wii U
games console - which are internet-connected and can all do iPlayer.

Yes, iPlayer is very handy. I've got it on the media centre PC which
is connected to the TV, and also on the Freeview HDD recorder. I can't
remember whether it was one of the internet things the TV could access
on its own, but when I experimented with a temporary ethernet
connection to it shortly after I bought it, I found that everything it
did with the internet was excruciatingly slow, so I decided not to buy
the special expensive wireless dongle and just use the PC.
++++++++++++
FWIW I've just got a new TV and the internet access is vastly superior to
the old one. Still wouldn't fire it up to surf the web, but it does iPlayer
etc at a sensible rate now.

Paul DS.

On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:27:56 +0100, the dog from that film you saw
wrote:

On 21/05/2013 10:50, Richard Russell wrote:
On May 21, 10:37 am, "Paul D Smith" wrote:
having a
single player format would make so much more sense than having competing
(and often poor) alternatives.

YouView?

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/




wasn't it project kangaroo that wanted to do just that?- and ofcom shot
it down as anti-competetive.

Yes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...ion-commission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Kangaroo

While YouView has a uniform interface with an EPG that looks backwards
as well as forwards, the on-demand material comes from the existing
separate services:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youview#YouView_Content

The on-demand players available are BBC iPlayer (free), 4oD (free),
ITV Player (free, ITV plc owned regions and UTV region) or STV
Player (free, STV Group owned regions),[1] Demand 5 (free),
Milkshake! (free, children's programming from Channel 5) and Now TV
(paid for, premium movies).

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)