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Quick and small update....
Channel 5's high definition channel on satellite has transferred from Sky capacity to a transponder controlled by Channel 5 itself.
The channel, officially labelled as "Channel 5HD", is now carried alongside Channel 5's other channels, including the standard definition version and digital offshoot channels including 5STAR and Spike on Astra 2G transponder 57. (10964 H, Symbol Rate 22000 FEC 5/6)
For Sky subscribers, the associated frequency change should have been processed automatically through the Sky EPG and no action should be required.
Channel 5HD remains encrypted at the present time, although the transponder move is widely seen as a precursor to the channel becoming free-to-air and available on Freesat in the future.
As yet, the broadcaster, now owned by US media giant Viacom, hasn't released any information into the public domain regarding making Channel 5HD freely available.
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The BBC iPlayer TV licence loophole will be closed “as soon as practicable”, the Culture Secretary has confirmed. John Whittingdale said the licence fee, which currently applies only to live TV viewers, will be extended to those watching shows through the online catch-up service.
Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention, Whittingdale said: “I will be bringing forward, as soon as practicable, secondary legislation which will extend the current TV licensing regime not only to cover those watching the BBC live, but also those watching the BBC on catch-up through the iPlayer. When the licence fee was invented, video on demand did not exist.
He continued: “And while the definition of television in the legislation covers live streaming, it does not require viewers to have a licence if they watch BBC programmes through the iPlayer even if it is just a few minutes after transmission. The BBC works on the basis that all who watch it pay for it. Giving a free ride to those who enjoy Sherlock or Bake Off an hour, a day or a week after they are broadcast was never intended and is wrong.”
Whittingdale said there would have to be an order drafted and agreed by Parliament on the licensing change which he would try to get “passed as soon as we can”.
Source : http://advanced-television.com…er-to-require-tv-licence/
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and here is the file posted on the site, enjoy
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March 3, 2016
In a deal that reinforces its position as one of the fastest growing global media and entertainment companies, beIN MEDIA GROUP has acquired 100 per cent of Miramax, one of the most distinguished and recognisable brands in entertainment and synonymous with award-winning and original content. Selling shareholders include Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Colony Capital.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of beIN MEDIA GROUP, said: “We are extremely excited to have achieved this key milestone within our strategy. Miramax is a successful film and television company, providing a strong and recognisable brand, a unique library and industry expertise that complement beIN MEDIA GROUP’s plans to grow across the entertainment industry and develop new content production. As part of beIN MEDIA GROUP, we will support Miramax in continuing to build this exciting platform. We very much look forward to working with the Miramax team.”
“Miramax is one of the most iconic film brands in the world, housing a collection of the most celebrated and valued content libraries and management teams in Hollywood,” said Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., founder of Colony Capital. “In 2010, we were given the opportunity to shepherd the creative genius of the Weinsteins and Disney into the 21st century and share their mastery with the world by expanding distribution on a global basis through theatrical, digital and online providers. By riding the secular wave into online streaming, we successfully returned our partners’ capital many times over and safeguarded the passion, dedication and hard work of the library’s true artistic masters. Colony has done its job in repositioning the company to independent prominence and profitability as not only a library but a renowned producer of independent film and television. Our sale to beIN will provide not only stewardship for these irreplaceable films but a best of class strategic owner focused on expansion of production and the betterment of the Miramax brand. We are fortunate to have found Nasser Al-Khelaifi and beIN MEDIA GROUP as the best of global class curator for the purpose of Miramax’s growth and continued legacy.”
Steve Schoch, CEO of Miramax said: “This is an exciting time in the evolution of our company, and we are thrilled to be a part of beIN MEDIA GROUP. MIRAMAX’s growing 2016 slate is a testament to the incredible work of the team thus far to build on the proud Miramax legacy. In concert with beIN leadership, we look forward to further expanding our film and television output, broadening our distribution capabilities and fortifying our position as the premiere independent studio brand.”
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FRENCH ARREST AND JAIL OPERATOR OF “FULL-STREAM” PIRATE SITE
French authorities have arrested the 22-year-old alleged operator of popular streaming site Full-Stream.org. With over a million visitors a month the platform was one of the largest pirate sites in the country. The Frenchman reportedly admitted to creating the site and faces up to five years in prison.
Founded in 2013, the streaming site Full-Stream has steadily worked itself to the top of the French piracy community.
With nearly 100,000 streams per day and over a million monthly visitors, it was one of the 150 most visited websites in the country.
This changed last week, when an alleged operator of the site was arrested by local police. According to the prosecution office at d’Aix-en-Provence the 22-year-old man was subsequently jailed.
The man reportedly admitted that he founded the site three years ago and it’s claimed that he profited substantially through advertisements. This revenue was kept offshore in a Hong Kong bank account.
The investigation into Full-Stream began in 2014 after the authorities received a complaint from the local entertainment industry group SACEM and the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA).
According to the prosecution office the investigation found that the site offered pirated copies of 2,426 TV-series and 10,152 films. How much revenue the alleged operator made is still being researched.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor applauds the cooperation with the private industry groups which led to the arrest.
“This is the first time in France that, in this legal framework, cooperation between investigators and agents SACEM and ALPA has lead to the arrest of suspects.”
A second man was also detained in Grenoble last week, but he was released after an interrogation. However, the authorities note that other persons may be indicted at a later stage.
On the official Facebook page many people are mourning the loss of Full-Stream. Initially the Full-Stream.org and Full-Stream.me domains remained accessible, but at the time of writing these are offline as well.
The operator of the site will remain in prison for at least four months “because of his behavior and statements made in court,” and he ultimately faces a prison sentence of up to five years.
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A little more than a week after the closure of owner SlySoft, controversial ripping tool AnyDVD is back. Now operating under the RedFox banner, AnyDVD and friends have skipped to Belize while offering a brand new release. Interestingly, associations with piracy are being made unwelcome, with one developer claiming that's not what their tools are all about.
After coming under pressure from decryption licensing outfit AACS LA, last week DVD and Blu-ray copy-protection circumvention company SlySoft shutdown.
It still hasn’t been made clear if studios including Warner Bros, Disney and technology partners Microsoft and Intel were behind the closure, but for now that’s the working assumption. Having SlySoft flagship product AnyDVD off the market would’ve been a huge feather in their collective caps.
But shutdowns of companies like SlySoft often prove troublesome and earlier this week the first signs of cracks in the closure began to show. With talk of a return under a new banner a hot topic, former developers openly discussed bringing AnyDVD and other products back online.
Making things more interesting was the revelation that SlySoft was not entirely based in Antigua but actually a decentralized operation with developers scattered in countries around the world. Developers who, it transpired, still had access to key SlySoft infrastructure and the will to reanimate the project. In the end, it didn’t take long.
Still sporting a familiar ‘fox’ logo, yesterday a reborn ‘RedFox’ rose from the ashes of SlySoft. Now hailing from Belize with at least some infrastructure in Latvia, the RedFox team delivered their first release – an update to AnyDVD, version 7.6.9.1.
“AnyDVD reborn! SlySoft is dead, long live RedFox!” declared the changelog.
“This is an intermediate release, so old customers can continue to use their existing AnyDVD license to watch their discs. This version can access the new RedFox Online Protection Database,” the group added.
Perhaps of most interest are the new features. In addition to some minor fixes and improvements, AnyDVD also supports new discs, a big first step for a product that just a week ago looked destined for the archives.
The release will only work if users already own a valid AnyDVD license, which suggests that RedFox have access to the old company’s licensing systems, another important step for keeping the business model moving forward. Additionally, old SlySoft products have also returned, including CloneBD and CloneDVD.
But while would-be pirates might find cause for celebration, not everyone in the new RedFox team welcomes being so closely associated with the practice. A developer identifying himself as ‘Peer’ says that comments made by release groups in an article published on TF at the weekend left him feeling “depressed”.
redfox-logo“Pirates were never the intended audience. If SlySoft could have shaken them off, they would have. In fact – some people seem to think, that without piracy, SlySoft wouldn’t have existed,” Peer explains.
For those that primarily used SlySoft’s products for piracy (and the MPAA and AACS LA seem to think that’s a whole bunch of them) the assumption seems reasonable. However, Peer sees things somewhat differently.
“Pirates only made a very small percentage of the AnyDVD userbase. And – given that they are pirates, it’s a valid question whether they were even paying customers,” he says.
“AnyDVD was created out of the frustration of a few people, who got fed up with the unplayability (yes! that word is fitting!) of DVDs and later on Blu-ray discs. So, of course, SlySoft could have easily done without the pirates – and had they, SlySoft might even still exist.”
While one can see Peer’s point (and presuming for a moment we can easily interchange the terms ‘piracy’ and ‘copyright infringement’), the fact that AnyDVD drilled a huge hole through the encryption efforts of AACS LA makes it a seriously infringing piece of software, if of course the trade groups and courts are to be believed.
So, one has to conclude that even without piracy SlySoft would’ve been in trouble, a point not lost on the developer.
“It’s not that the AACS-LA wouldn’t have gone to the same lengths trying – don’t mistake them to be fighting piracy, their goal is a more immediate one, which is to justify their existence,” Peer says.
“They have this huge money-making machine, collect fees for every [blu ray disc] ever being sold without having to really, well, do much (god, I wish I were the AACS-LA), while promising to protect the discs in return, which effectively doesn’t work – so they have no choice but to fight back.”
That fight includes taking down products like AnyDVD and DVDFab, both of which are closely connected (whether the developers like it or not) with DRM circumvention and ultimately piracy.
“You can’t deny that [piracy] is hurting the movie industry. And you can’t deny that we were involuntarily helping piracy. Just like the glass cutter involuntarily helps burglary,” Peer says.
“So, sorry MPAA, AACS and all you people with the fancy acronyms – we can’t help you with the piracy, but since no one is helping us with [playing and backing up] movies, we’re picking up things ourselves.”
Nevertheless, the intentions of the RedFox team will have little bearing on how they are perceived by the MPAA and AACS LA. They will be seen as outlaws with no respect for the laws that the industry groups worked long and hard to have put in place. On that basis alone, this battle is far from over.
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March 2, 2016
UK spectrum regulator Ofcom is examining future demand for satellite bandwidth over the UK in a new Space Spectrum Strategy consultation document issued March 1st (and which closes for comments on May 10th this year).
One of its key findings, which is open to comment, is that it sees there being enough satellite spectrum – based on its current assessments – to deliver “30 Ultra HD channels, and continued growth in the number of HD channels” which could be “easily be accommodated within existing spectrum allocations”.
Ofcom says it believes these assessments to be in order because of technology improvements.
The regulator suggests that because of this availability of spectrum there is “less need” for it to take regulatory action.
Ofcom also believes that satellite could have a role in delivering the growing interest in ‘Internet of Things’ and machine-to-machine connectivity.
Ofcom also says that demand for satellite-delivered Broadband exists, in particular to those places where terrestrial fixed or mobile networks are absent or inadequate. “Satellites could, therefore, have a role in meeting this growing demand in the hardest-to-reach premises in the UK, and satellite broadband is one of the options for fulfilling the Government’s ambition to make 10 Mbit/s broadband universally available,” says the consultation document.
Source : http://advanced-television.com…d-channels-via-satellite/
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A man suspected of being the main operator of what was once Sweden's largest streaming site has been arrested in Germany following the execution of a secret European warrant. The man, reportedly a Turkish national, is believed to have set up advertising deals at Swefilmer resulting in around $1.7m in revenue.
Founded in 2011, Swefilmer was Sweden’s most popular streaming movie and TV show site. Research published last year by Media Vision claimed that 25% of all web TV viewing in the country was carried out on Swefilmer and another similar site, Dreamfilm.
All that began to change in July 2015 when one of the site’s operators, local man Ola Johansson, revealed that he’d been raided by the police who seized various items of computer equipment and placed him under arrest.
“It’s been a tough month to say the least. On 8 July, I received a search by the police at home. I lost a computer, mobile phone and other things,” Johansson said.
The gravity of the situation became clear when the Swede revealed in a video posted to YouTube that he’d been detained for almost four days.
Now, fresh news coming out of from Sweden is shining new light on the scale of the investigation which is already the largest involving a streaming site in the country.
While Johansson remains suspected of copyright infringement offenses, he is not thought to be the main person behind the site. A second man, believed to be the main operator of Swefilmer and the person who handled its revenue, has now been arrested in Germany.
According to Expressen he was first arrested in his absence last summer and was physically arrested in January 2016 after Sweden obtained a European arrest warrant. The existence of the warrant had previously been kept secret and news of the arrest only came to light last evening.
The man is reportedly a 25-year-old Turkish citizen resident in Germany. He is accused of being the site’s main operator and the person who setup the site’s deals with advertisers and accepted donations from users.
Court documents obtained by Expressen show that the European arrest warrant was obtained in Sweden on August 18, 2015. Signed by veteran file-sharing prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, the 25-year-old suspect is accused of offenses including copyright infringement and aggravated money laundering.
The case involves a sample 1,400 movies that were allegedly made available without copyright holders’ permission between January 2013 and July 2015. In respect of the financial crimes the man is accused of receiving the equivalent of $1.7m in advertising revenue and donations into a Turkish bank account.
An order already exists to seize around $1.5m, which will be confiscated in preparation for any financial settlements when the case goes to trial. In January other seizures were made including a $77,000 car and properties worth $233,000.
The man remains in custody in Germany and it’s understood that his lawyer is campaigning for his release. Last month he filed an appeal which stated that no evidence had been produced to suggest the man was involved in Swefilmer. The appeal was rejected.
In the meantime Claes Kennedy, the lawyer representing Ola Johansson, expressed surprise that he had not been informed of the recent developments.
“It is strange that I was not informed about this,” Kennedy said. “Ola admits that he has been involved to some extent in the site Swefilmer, but his involvement was limited.”
While the prosecution is not expected to reach Pirate Bay-style heights, it does mark the most significant case against a streaming portal in Sweden to date. There is some way to go but it’s expected that the prosecution will demand the most severe sentences available.
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Thanks buddy, just ordered one.
Nice one mate, let us know how you get on with it :thumb:
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Cool, been looking to replace my aging Pi. When and where to buy in the UK, I'm guessing RS components?
Have a look here mate
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Netflix has been streaming 4K content since April 2014 and when actual 4K content was extremely thin on the ground. Happily there are now plenty of consumers with Ultra-HD (UHD) displays and last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona saw one of its VP/interface innovation, Chris Jaffe, promise delegates that there would be plenty of higher quality UHD material available for streaming this year.
Jaffe said that this year would see some 600 hours of original programming and his UHD obligation emphasised the long-awaited “better pixels” definition embraced by High Dynamic Range (HDR) benefits of expanded brightness and wider colour range.
“High Dynamic Range is less about packing more pixels on the screen like the move from HD to Ultra HD 4K was,” Jaffe said. “It’s about extending the total range of those pixels. What that means is that you’re watching a much more photo realistic image that’s much more representative of the total range that your eye can see when you’re just looking round in real life.”
However, while rival Amazon’s subscribers can currently view HDR programme, Jaffe made no actual commitment to starting HDR streams. He confirmed to delegates that Marco Polo would be available in HDR “later this year”, as would the second season of Daredevil.
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It's official - Channel 5 has got the necessary paperwork from Ofcom to launch its HD channel on Freeview.
Channel 5 HD is one of several new channels that have received Ofcom licences enabling them to broadcast a service on the UK's digital terrestrial TV platform.
The Viacom-owned broadcaster has previously stated that it is "committed" to launching on Freeview HD, despite turning down two opportunities to join Freeview under previous management.
The channel is a candidate for the current BBC Three HD channel number (105), once the current online promo channel is removed.
Other channels given a licence to broadcast on terrestrial TV include children's channel Kix and crime drama channel True Crime, both operated by CSC Media, which is part of Sony TV's family of channels. The addition of Kix would fill the children's section of the Freeview EPG if it was added without an existing service being removed. Some children's channels are only available in certain areas on Freeview. A licence has also been given for a service called "One World Television".
No details about launch timeframes and channel numbers have been released just yet - but these licences are often the first indication of an impending launch.
From a technical standpoint, there's currently around 10-15 Mbps of variable bandwidth lying unused on the main digital multiplex (multiplex) BBC-B/PSB3) that carries BBC One, BBC Two, ITV and Channel 4 in HD, that's before BBC Three HD's evening bandwidth is even taken into the equation. This would provide sufficient bandwidth for another national HD channel on Freeview.
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Meet the New Raspberry Pi 3 — A 64-bit Pi With Built-in Wireless and Bluetooth LE
Today is the Raspberry Pi’s fourth birthday, and along with birthday wishes, we’re welcoming their newest board. Almost exactly a year after the arrival of the Raspberry Pi 2, say hello to the new Raspberry Pi 3, Model B. The new board is the first 64-bit Raspberry Pi, and comes with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The Specs
Quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 clocked at 1.2 GHz
Roughly 50% faster than Raspberry Pi 2
802.11n Wireless LAN
Bluetooth 4.1 (including Bluetooth Low Energy)
400MHz VideoCore IV multimedia
1GB LPDDR2-900 SDRAM (i.e. 900MHz)
Priced at $35Intended not just as a desktop replacement, but also to be used embedded projects, the Pi 3 has been deliberately designed as an evolution rather than a revolution for the Raspberry Pi platform. Which makes a lot of sense.
With over 8 million Raspberry Pi boards now sold, keeping backwards compatibility has to be important to the Foundation. That’s a lot of users and teaching materials.
The new Pi is fast
On the surface, the new board looks almost exactly the same as its predecessor. But while it keeps the same $35 price tag, a lot has changed under the surface. Dropping the ARM v7 architecture of the Raspberry Pi 2, this is the first 64-bit Raspberry Pi, with a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 clocked at 1.2GHz.Source and full story : http://makezine.com/2016/02/28/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-3/
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FBI BUSTS MOVIE INDUSTRY INSIDER FOR DVD SCREENER LEAKS
A 31-year old man from Lancaster has been arrested following an FBI investigation into several leaked DVD-screeners. The man, who worked in the entertainment industry, pleaded guilty to uploading screener copies of The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie to the private BitTorrent tracker Pass The Popcorn.
Late last December millions of pirates cheered behind their computers as the “screener season” finally got underway.
High quality copies of some of the hottest Hollywood productions appeared online, with some titles even beating their official theatrical release.
The high-profile leaks were put on the radar of the FBI and this week the Justice Department announced that they caught one of the sources, a 31-year old entertainment industry worker.
Kyle Moriarty from Lancaster admitted to copying screeners of The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie, while working on a movie studio lot. Both copies were uploaded to the private BitTorrent tracker Pass The Popcorn (PTP) and found their way to many public sites in the following days.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Moriarty has signed a plea agreement which was submitted to a District Court last Friday.
“…defendant obtained copies of the copyright-protected films The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie. Each of the films was a “screener,” a disc containing an advance screening copy of a film, which defendant took without authorization while at work,” the agreement reads.
Moriarty copied the films onto a USB drive and took them home. After encoding the releases he uploaded The Revenant screener and The Peanuts Movie to the PTP tracker, with the username “clutchit.”
The Justice Department reports that both movies were downloaded millions of times following their early release, causing significant damage to the copyright holders.
“Over one million people have downloaded from peer-to-peer networks the version of The Revenant that defendant uploaded to the Internet. Fox has suffered losses of at least $1.12 million,” the press release states.
The plea agreement doesn’t identify Moriarty’s employer but according to The Smoking Gun he worked as a production coordinator for the “Dr. Phil” show, which shoots close to the Paramount studio.
It remains unclear how the FBI identified Moriarty us the uploader, but according to the plea agreement he uploaded the movies from his home address.
The Lancaster man doesn’t appear to be connected to the release group Hive-CM8, which uploaded the bulk of the leaked screeners last December. Hive-CM8 leaked over a dozen screeners but The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie were not among their releases.
In a statement released to the public, U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker applauds the enforcement efforts, stating that the leaks endangered the local entertainment industries.
“As the Academy Awards ceremony this weekend highlights, the entertainment industry is the economic cornerstone of the Central District of California. Therefore, my office is committed to protecting its intellectual property,” Decker notes.
“The defendant’s conduct harmed the very industry that was providing his livelihood as well as the livelihood of others in Southern California,” she adds.
Moriarty is scheduled to be arraigned next month and faces a maximum prison sentence of three years.
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any one know if sky boxoffice has stoped working or have they changed freq??
Try this one...
Freq:12148 Pol:H SR:27500 QPSK-5/6
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Anyone know what time this fight starts at
A guy at the gym this morning said 9pm the main bout
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All credit to Rat
Update 26/02/16
BT Sports updated
Sky 2 updated -
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