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First HDTV channels hit French television
We'd insert some corny French welcome here, but we don't know any. Regardless of our language barrier, we now all know one thing clearly: HDTV. Rival platforms Canal Group and TPS are competing to get more high definition to their customers, quicker. While TPS has been airing part time high def since February, Canal has promised to launch one full time channel on April 4, followed in June by National Geographic HD.Well, now we can check France of our banned travel countries list. I had so missed the Louvre.
Newly proposed French law does not penalize Apple
First off, I would like to note that this post is an opinion piece, and though it contains facts, the opinions contained therein are definitely biased towards open source, open standards, the freedom of software programmers, and technological innovation.France's Assemblé Nationale voted in yesterday evening the DADVSI, a rather hideous proposal which will most likely become law when France's Sénat deems it constitutional and President Chirac signs it. Both of the latter are likely as the president is of the same majority right party (UMP) as the Assemblé Nationale. The New York Times (and Slashdot) have noted incorrectly that the law will contain clauses for interoperability required of iTunes and iPods, but those amendments did not make it into the final proposal voted on Thursday night. Read on for a breakdown of the law as it currently awaits, almost certain, approval.
