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Any news on five?
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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 558153" data-attributes="member: 176256"><p>There's absolutely no technical reason why 2D HAS to be used - it's all political. Or at least financial.</p><p></p><p>In order to appease copyright holders of programmes that are sold throughout the world it is necessary to limit the area in which these programmes can be seen as they are sold over and over again to countries. If a programme can be received outside of its normal area then the copyright holders get twitchy that they might not be getting as much money as possible.</p><p></p><p>$ly can limit reception by encryption and controlling the distribution of cards and decoders (well, theoretically anyway!), Freesat does it by shoving their transmissions onto 2D where reception rapidly falll off as you move away from the UK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 558153, member: 176256"] There's absolutely no technical reason why 2D HAS to be used - it's all political. Or at least financial. In order to appease copyright holders of programmes that are sold throughout the world it is necessary to limit the area in which these programmes can be seen as they are sold over and over again to countries. If a programme can be received outside of its normal area then the copyright holders get twitchy that they might not be getting as much money as possible. $ly can limit reception by encryption and controlling the distribution of cards and decoders (well, theoretically anyway!), Freesat does it by shoving their transmissions onto 2D where reception rapidly falll off as you move away from the UK. [/QUOTE]
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