[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.17 - release candidate 2

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 03/06/08 11:36, Ales Jurik wrote:
> On Thursday 06 of March 2008, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> Sorry, I don't speak Czech, so I can't follow what's going on there.
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> there is nothing more than I've tried to put into this maillist except 
> discussion.
> 
>> With the recent change at least the Czech channels should work
>> properly again. Can you confirm that?
>>
> 
> Yes, I confirm that. Similar solution was proposed by bastlir at the forum (he 
> proposed to comment out the line your patch is deleting). 
> 
>> For version 1.6.0 there's nothing more I can do than using the environment
>> variable. Maybe later I'll introduce a "workaround-provider-stupidity.conf"
>> ;-)
>>
> 
> I agree with you but I'm afraid that such communications with broadcasters 
> will give no results. This maybe will be successfull when big producers of 
> sat boxes will make such pression too. But it seems that for them is more 
> efficient to make localization which is compliant to broadcasters not to sat 
> norms. 

I'd really like to know why some broadcasters don't adhere to the standards
(even though it would be a child's game). Are they actively refusing to, unable
to interpret the standard documents, or just flat out dumb?

Klaus