NEWS: Sky Available Through Wires - skybybroadband

[TechZ]

- Sky TV has launched a broadband only service which allows users to download films and programmes legally. Customers who are on Sky's Digital package and have either Sky Sports or Sky Movies will be able to access a wide range of videos, at no extra cost. The videos are encoded at 860kbps and are at a resolution of 540x432. Sky reckons a 2 hour movie will be about 750MB. Windows XP is needed to watch the videos according to Sky.

They hope to offer over 1,000 films through their back catalogue, whilst Sky Sports subscribers will be able to watch sports clips. Films will usually be viewable for 30 days until the license expires.

(Expect it to be heavily DRM'd)

[confus-ed]

(Expect it to be heavily DRM'd)

& then expect it to be completely un-DRM'd not very long after that !

UK & Rep. of Ireland ONLY btw. (& I'm pointing that out, as the access to it is password & account protected, & you can apparently 'move about' your chosen download place, as a pal of mine was doing this on one of their trial runs, but once you are outside Brittain 'it knows' {via IP checking} so he was miffed when he couldn't watch in spain ! )