{"id":275,"date":"2007-01-31T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=275"},"modified":"2007-01-31T21:32:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T21:32:53","slug":"video-downloads-from-the-bbc-make-sure-theyre-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Video downloads from the BBC?  Make sure they&#8217;re &#8216;open&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC are proposing to make TV programmes available for download at some point in the near future.  There is  an open <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbctrust\/consult\/open-consultations\/ondemand_services.html\">consultation process<\/a> about this happening right now.  I&#8217;ve made a formal comment asking them that they use open media and audio formats for their distribution, thus making it possible for <em>all<\/em> BBC licence-payers to view the content, not just those running Microsoft Windows.  One of the questions in the consultation specifically asked about this issue (the text was something like &#8220;<em>How important is it to ensure that access is possible from systems other than Microsoft?<\/em>&#8221; or words to that effect), so it&#8217;s obviously something they are considering.  If you live in the UK, please consider taking a few minutes to send them a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC are proposing to make TV programmes available for download at some point in the near future. There is an open consultation process about this happening right now. I&#8217;ve made a formal comment asking them that they use open media and audio formats for their distribution, thus making it possible for all BBC licence-payers to&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=275\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}