Apple TV and Sky By Broadband

Is it possible to download a film using Sky By Broadband to my laptop and view it on my TV using Apple TV?

Is it possible to download a film using Sky By Broadband to my laptop and view it on my TV using Apple TV?
The answer is no.
Sky by Broadband uses Windows Media Player DRM which has never been supported on the Mac even before Microsoft discontinued Windows Media Player. It also uses the Kontiki peer-to-peer system for actually transferring (downloading) the files. This also as far as I am aware has never been ported to the Mac.
Even if you use a real PC or Boot Camp to successfully get the files on to a computer, because of the DRM you cannot copy, save, convert or do anything to them.
Unfortunately, the morons at the BBC (iPlayer), and Channel 4 (4oD) have chosen to use the exact same ghastly software.
Currently the BBC iPlayer is Windows only (because it is using Windows Media Player DRM and Kontiki peer-to-peer) but the BBC Trust have told the BBC they must provide a Mac solution (and Linux). While no timescale has been set (the BBC are not going to rush in to it until they can find an equally ghastly DRM solution for Mac), my guess would be one of the three following possibilities
1. Microsoft Silverlight. A version (playback only) of this complete with new equally ghastly DRM has been released by Microsoft for Mac (as a token gesture).
2. Adobe Media Player is an expansion of Flash with its own DRM and like Flash should be available for both Mac and Windows.
3. Real Player. Apparently even on a Mac Real do support using their own DRM, however so few people use Real Player (on a Mac) I have never some across an example of this.
Unfortunately because of the DRM all three of the above are infested with, none of them can be used with QuickTime, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, or AppleTV.
When are these idiots going to realise like the far more intelligent Steve Jobs that
i. DRM only inconveniences legal customers and not pirates
ii. DRM (including that in Windows Media Player, HD-DVD, and Blu-Ray), can be broken, indeed already has been broken, and always will be broken.
Note: I have installed and looked at Sky by Broadband, but it was such an unpleasant experience, with such a poor selection of programmes that I have not actually bothered to download a single programme using it.

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