Hi Jeremy! On 12/06/07, Jeremy Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- As Richard said..Listen Again will still be available
"Listen Again" is in proprietary Real Media format. The BBC should adopt free formats like Ogg Vorbis.
- We will also be working (or already are) on propositions for cable, mac, linux
Have you read http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html ? :-)
and the BBC Trust have asked us to be platform agnostic "within a reasonable time frame"
Sadly, platform agnostic doesn't mean non-DRM or non-proprietary :-(
This is innovative, ground breaking stuff for a media corporation on this scale.
Very true, and very applaudable in those narrow aspects. But while important, these technical achievements are not as important as the social implications of the technology.
And you know we are also distributing our video content via YouTube and other spaces and experimenting with embedded video (on 7 Ages of Rock, in News) within bbc.co.uk and the ability for users to share that.
When you say "share," you really mean "embed in their own web pages" - which is certainly not sharing, other than in a very superficial sense. IMO its important to distinguish "sharing" an embedded clip on your homepage versus sharing data across all your computing devices.
This is a snapshot of where we are today.
Thanks for posting this! :-) -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
