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EPGs: the proprietary debate
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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 22635" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>Agree. Proprietary <em>anything</em> is a bad idea. That's why we have standards there in the first place. Ultimately consumer choice is better served by avoiding proprietary solutions, which in my view are tantamount to monopolistic or "anti-trust" practice. </p><p></p><p>But the UK's already gone so far down that path with Sky that any discussions on the EPG for DTT amount to nothing more than a little noise in the system, a little posturing on the sidelines.</p><p></p><p>Rather than have any commission spending any amount of time looking at the nuances of a DTT EPG, I'd rather they concentrated their resources on unlocking Murdoch's creation.</p><p></p><p>They could start by forcing NDS to licence Videoguard in CI CAM form. Then they could force Sky to make the receivers and CAMs available in any electrical goods outlet. Then to adhere to the DVB EPG standards. And to develop a flexible EPG which allows the consumer to re-sequence channels and breaks the artificial and insidious influence that a fixed EPG gives Sky on the success or otherwise of a channel dependent on how high up it is placed. And while they were at it they could force Sky to market a PVR which does not require a Sky subscription and Sky telephone connection to activate. Or else to allow other independent manufacturers to do so. </p><p>And so on. </p><p></p><p>So all this talk of standards is very noble, but given the current and continuing direction of the UK satellite monopoly it's all a case of "too little, too late" if you ask me.</p><p></p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 22635, member: 174998"] Agree. Proprietary [I]anything[/I] is a bad idea. That's why we have standards there in the first place. Ultimately consumer choice is better served by avoiding proprietary solutions, which in my view are tantamount to monopolistic or "anti-trust" practice. But the UK's already gone so far down that path with Sky that any discussions on the EPG for DTT amount to nothing more than a little noise in the system, a little posturing on the sidelines. Rather than have any commission spending any amount of time looking at the nuances of a DTT EPG, I'd rather they concentrated their resources on unlocking Murdoch's creation. They could start by forcing NDS to licence Videoguard in CI CAM form. Then they could force Sky to make the receivers and CAMs available in any electrical goods outlet. Then to adhere to the DVB EPG standards. And to develop a flexible EPG which allows the consumer to re-sequence channels and breaks the artificial and insidious influence that a fixed EPG gives Sky on the success or otherwise of a channel dependent on how high up it is placed. And while they were at it they could force Sky to market a PVR which does not require a Sky subscription and Sky telephone connection to activate. Or else to allow other independent manufacturers to do so. And so on. So all this talk of standards is very noble, but given the current and continuing direction of the UK satellite monopoly it's all a case of "too little, too late" if you ask me. 2old [/QUOTE]
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