Christian Pernegger Wrote: > > The point is, that you can't reencode losslessly whenever a new format > of choice comes along. Think the current flavour of .wma is going to be > around forever? Think again ... It's pretty hard to find the Windows > Media V2 codec nowadays. > That's yet one more reason why $5/month unlimited DRM makes a lot more sense than $0.99/song Apple DRM. Even if the format eventually becomes obsolete, it's hard to argue you didn't get your $5/month worth.
You're free at any time to pick the best deal going for a monthly music subscription. If someone has a hot new codec/format, and you want to switch, it's easy to do so as you have little investment in your own DRM music collection. It's also very likely the hardware will become obsolete before the format does, so that's less of an issue when you look at the big picture. Besides, much of the hardware, and the PlaysForSure standard itself, will hopefully be able to support at least the next round of new formats as they become viable. Eventually, it's safe to assume new formats will simply require more computing horsepower than current players have and/or will support multichannel (i.e. 5.1) audio. Those formats will require newer hardware than virtually everything shipping today. But, in the meantime, I sincerely hope the Slim folks will enhance the SqueezeBox (or at least SB2) to play subscription based DRM WMA. If Roku can do it, I don't see why Slim cannot? I suspect Microsoft would love to add the Squeezebox to their list of compatible PlaysForSure hardware? -- AV_Guy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
