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Comments on: Sony and Sky plan summer release for video download scheme

Why is the PC in the loop!? 

Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 15:09 GMT

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Would make more sense to have something directly on the PSP. Why tether the service to a PC/Mac/[Insert computer of choice here]?

Gimped 

Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 15:13 GMT

This sounds like a gimped extension to the Sky download / Kontiki POS.

The alternative is pick up an old LocationFree from ebay and watch and control anything on your PSP, live, be it satellite or cable :)

Why pay? Sky don't think you ought to have to. 

Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 18:02 GMT

Pirate

If Sky's parent corporation, News International, feels it's acceptable to hack through protection mechanisms in order to steal other people's content, I don't see how they could object if we all copy their videos and torrent them to each other.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/tarnovsky_testifies/

Yo-ho-ho. All Sky/NI content is up for grabs as far as I'm concerned.

@ AC 

Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 21:59 GMT

Paris Hilton

Don't really understand the background to the case you referenced do you?

NDS paid a guy to try to crack an NDS protection system. Problem was, the best guy to do this worked for the competition at the time......hence the squirrelled away cash. i.e. The guy was paid to security test a Company's product.

What are dish pissed about? The fact that their system was insecure, or that one of their employees has worked on the side for a competitor. Either way, they are doing it for the shareholders in order to show them they are safeguarding their revenue streams.

Having said that, he could have subsequently let the flaws of his own Company's products be known to NDS and they may have 'accidentally' released this into the public domain in order to undermine their competitors. hmm, now if i'd been fired for doing a foreigner for a competitor......I might think of hitting back in some small way, especially if I didn't feel i'd done much wrong.........

However, these systems are only for the protection of the transmitter really. If Sky had a competing offering to DISH in the US, it would be a concern, but they don't.

Alternatively, it could be argued that they are just exploiting a weakness in the system as a technical exercise to see how robust the competitions systems are.

honest guv.

And absolutely nothing to do with generating more viewers FOC for the NI/Sky owned channels..... These guys make most of their money from advertising remember.

Paris, because it doesn't take much more to crack her than to get free DISH channels.......

But I thought .. 

Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 23:19 GMT

The all-singing all-dancing PS3 was to be the hub of home entertainment ? I cant understand why they dont use that as the feed for the PSP, it may actually drive sales for both platforms.

So 

Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 23:47 GMT

Pirate

So , does it come with a free rootkit too ?

Or is it like everything else SONY has sold in the past decade a mere flash in the pan doomed to fail miserably of the me follow you , much too little too late variety ?

Re:So 

Posted Friday 25th April 2008 07:38 GMT

"Or is it like everything else SONY has sold in the past decade a mere flash in the pan doomed to fail miserably of the me follow you , much too little too late variety"

Umm, you mean like the Playstation, or PS2, just for two examples? And with the PS3 and Blu-Ray growing in popularity, perhaps a couple more.

Actually about half of the things that Sony bring to market are successful, and about half are not. Although, rather like the iphone haters, this statement appears to come from someone who just wants to hate something regardless of any other facts.

@Graham Lockley

Agreed - I don't understand why they haven't done that either. Perhaps they will at a later date, with some firmware upgrade to the PS3.