Why was the original title changed? They aren't open sourcing anything today.<p>They are planning to develop new tech which they might open source. But all this still has to be approved by the regulator and the government.<p>That said, I have seen some of the tech from the inside ~10 years ago. The ARD player was developed by a third party and there was no budget to bring this in house. Things might have changed but redoing everything just to open source it sounds like a waste of money.
Here in Israel they just upload most of their TV content to YT, some if it is really good. They used to also stream (and archive) their news stuff, but for some reason I'm getting a 404. (You can look up Kan11 and Kan11news if you are curious, though I don't think they have translations so probably not useful if you don't speak Hebrew).<p>EDIT: Looks like it is only broken for me in FireFox...
To understand the quality level of their current platforms: they actually manage to recommend the same stream you just watched as the next auto-play entry and even might jump directly into the credits again, giving you a 10 to 20 seconds loop in extreme cases.<p>While a two-stream recommendation loop is quite common in both systems, the loop above only happened twice for me so far. Still, it might just perfectly highlight the lack of passion and user focus plaguing their current platforms.<p>So, whatever they come up with in the new and maybe open one... ah, who am I kidding.
The current streaming service is shit.<p>If you stream via Chromecast, you can see your connection getting dropped by adaptive bitrate streaming in realtime.<p>It's always low quality, medium quality, high quality, ultra high quality, lag, then low quality again. You cannot change it to a fixed level manually too, on the Chromecast.
German public broadcaster has enough budget to send humans to the Moon. Still better than nothing, they could simply traditionally increase the fee without anything new in return. Any news from them them is a slap in the face and is assuring me that moving out of Germany was a good decision.
Not exactly the most ambitious project, is it. Besides the fact that both ARD and ZDF majorly struggle with the content itself in terms of quality and availability (it's not an archive, everything disappears quickly). One day they'll figure out this internet neuland thing ;)
the article does not say if the public has a stake in the private entity created to do this, which makes me curious why this path was chosen in the first place
This is great. It fits with how they're adopting Mastodon. Why isn't NPR officially adopting Mastodon? The fact that Truth Social exists should motivate NPR even more, as it could be accused of being pro-Trump while staying on Twitter. In Germany, no platform is run by any particular candidate, and they <i>still</i> went to Mastodon.
ca. 2000s, I'm getting rid of my TV because if you have one in Germany, you have to pay the fee...<p>ca. 2003, I'm getting rid of my tv-card which has been free until now, or else I have to pay a fee...<p>ca. 2010, They've got a website now, if you have a computer or phone, you gotta pay the fee...<p>great... now I have to pay the fee because I have a github... or what