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Post by cliff hanger on Aug 23, 2006 18:30:14 GMT
20 minutes into dads army tonight there was a blip in the transmission. do the bbc do what map makers do and perpousely put 'marks' or 'finger prints' onto progs to reduce bootlegging, as they are the sole owners of some progs and do not have adverts so programmes can be sold as a whole? where can i find out how often a programme has been shown on tv?
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Post by Koen Br on Aug 23, 2006 18:59:41 GMT
Let me try to reconstruct your way of thinking. BBC broadcasts programme, someone records it and sells it on, BBC deliberately adds blips so that, if a bootleg dvd was to appear, they would notice the bootleg recording was taken from a tv broadcast on a certain date.
(Sigh...) Serious idea, anyone? ;D Come on, if you were a bootlegger, why the hell would you do this? For £10 you can buy full series of this on official dvd's - so you have a nice menu, some good-looking packaging, and you needn't do all kind of editing to remove bits of continuity. (Mmm, I believe I would make a good bootlegger myself. ;D)
The BBC Infax catalogue lists all broadcasting occassions of programmes on BBC channels from the mid-seventies onwards. Alas, this catalogue was taken offline a couple of months ago (and I really miss it!).
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Post by cliff hanger on Aug 23, 2006 19:32:46 GMT
just read that they do they do! its done digitally they use a method similar to film companies do so progammes can be traced. thanks for yr conjecture though - not sure why that bbc site went down, do know they had streamlining to do on their site mayu have been part of this
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Post by Steve Bennett on Aug 23, 2006 19:35:34 GMT
20 minutes into dads army tonight there was a blip in the transmission. do the bbc do what map makers do and perpousely put 'marks' or 'finger prints' onto progs to reduce bootlegging The blip in the transmission would have been a completely unintentional technical fault. The BBC isn't in the habit of creating deliberate faults in its transmission to prevent people bootlegging things. Notice how most BBC programmes don't have blips in them  However, legend has it that the BBC did used to encode a secret signal into its transmissions that could only be detected by special equipment, the purpose of which was to "watermark" its programmes. If they were recorded off-air and used illegally by broadcasters in other countries, this watermark could be used by the BBC as evidence in legal cases against those broadcasters. Whether this is really true or not, I don't know. |
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Post by Mark Smith on Aug 23, 2006 20:50:50 GMT
20 minutes into dads army tonight there was a blip in the transmission. do the bbc do what map makers do and perpousely... Perpousely...? What is this perpousely? |
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Post by cliff hanger on Aug 23, 2006 20:56:55 GMT
under 'p' in the dictioary like 'pedantic' (sic) is.
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Post by Mark Smith on Aug 23, 2006 23:01:48 GMT
Literacy is a wonderful thing. You should try it sometime… |
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Post by Koen Br on Aug 24, 2006 10:44:34 GMT
Mmm, is it really true they tried to watermark their programmes to avoid foreign broadcasters using them? It isn't entirely possible, it's for the same reason satellite feeds of things like football games now are often encrypted. When they could be received by anyone pointing a dish in the right direction, it happened sometimes African broadcasters used the feed without paying for it!  BTW, perhaps I should have been a little bit less sarcastic in my earlier remark on this thread... Sorry! |
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Post by A Pedant on Aug 24, 2006 22:55:09 GMT
Blips to stop bootleggers? I'd have thought they were more likely to be put off by the bad cropping and stretching of the episode into widescreen.
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