On 13/03/2008, Thomas Leitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BBC also makes iPlayer content available in formats Windows > can understand, oh and Adobe Flash.
Both of which are proprietary! Not even open standards! > You can download on an iPhone or iPod Touch made by > Apple, or Microsoft Windows. Separate companies... separate > vendors even. The justification for one was that it was the most popular; the justifcation for the other? "We think it plays videos nice." ... But what about the hundreds of other vendors of digital video playback devices? > > So in effect the BBC are giving a competitive edge to two > > commercial entities > > Adobe. Microsoft. Apple. The BBC are giving illegal state aid to a handful of companies - Adobe. Microsoft. Apple. Real. - and trampling hundreds of others. > ... which obviously doesn't satisfy the vocal minority. The number of people with devices and OS that are not supported are a significant silent majory. > So one moment you to want it to be available on more devices. > Now you think that's quite anti-competitive ? Yes, because its being made available on more devices in an anti-competitive way. Everyone is asking for open standards and for the BBC not to discriminate against free software. To do otherwise is anti-competitive. > > ....does not > > favour one or more commercial entities.... > > I can really the people who, you know, act and write > music and direct, produce and fund... you know, those pesky > creatives and the like really plumping for that one. Get real. Rightsholders in all other sectors who tried DRM have abandoned it. The BBC ought to help the television rights holders figure out why the creatives who create music and books are doing that and "get real." -- Regards, Dave Personal opinion only. - 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]/
