On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 07:45 -0400, Matt Lee wrote: > Maybe. Maybe in the eyes of Microsoft 'on any device' and 'accessible' may > have > very little to do with using a non-free format.
Indeed. It'll be useful to quote MS's own statements back at them if the result isn't playable on any device in an accessible manner though. > Whatever happened to Dirac, anyway? I've not heard much about this recently. I believe it's still being actively developed, although I don't know of any "real-world" uses of it yet. The BBC have got a media player for playing recently-broadcast programmes, but unfortunately because of the way the programmes are then passed over to BBC Worldwide to be "commercialised", the player is DRM'ed to the hilt and actively destroys downloaded media after 7 days, from what I've heard. I don't know which compression algorithms they're using in the player, it /could/ be Dirac... Cheers, Gareth
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