Peter's Blog

i too have signed up for sky by broadband and was frankly a bit disappointed with the selection--i have downloaded 4 movies--but i expected a similar choice to what was being shown on sky at the mo. as i don't have sky plus i was hoping it would give me that benefit.but thanks for telling me you can back up to disc, can you watch them after your 30 days or whatever?

No, when the licence expires you cannot watch the film anyhow. When you back it up to disk it is still encrypted: not playable on a DVD for example. I'm not sure if you can play it from the disk or if you have to copy it back to hard disk.

You are right about the choice: on the tv I'm sure it said something about 1000 movies, the actual choice is much smaller. However, they don't charge any more for it (yet) which cannot be grumbled at. Still, it's got HellBoy which I quite enjoyed.

I've found the software a little buggy: keeps giving errors. Just about works though.

Peter

Well I have now mastered the workings of Sky By Broadband.

The benefits are it gives more flexibility as long as I use my laptop and the downloads are pretty quick.

The big disadvantage is the licensing although when enough users begin to challenge this there may be a few ideas which will allow the downloaded movies to be played on DVD players.

There are a couple of hidden files in the download directory which i have not yet copied to my standalone hard drive. Perhaps they are licences ?.

I would be prepared to pay a per item fee if the download could be licence free and therefore available to play on a DVD player.

Samuel