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> Personally I doubt that OGG - even though it is propably very great - > would have any chance anymore. > MP3 made digital music popular but new formats with digital rights > management systems are already here > and more are coming. Dunno. Nobody took Linux seriously a couple of years ago, and now it's everywhere... even in tech-gadgets. Just recently I read about a web-tv system that runs on Linux. ( http://www.tivo.com/ ) Ogg has already created some kind of grass-roots movement of its own, although the final version of Ogg Vorbis 1 isn't even out, yet. Actually in Ogg's case, the main question is not its quality (although impressive), but that it's totally free to use. I bet - for example - game developers could find use for cost-free audio compression format. Fraunhofer has spoken about starting to collect licensing fees for using MP3 compressed files in commercial products. (http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developer.asp#9 , http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developer.asp#7 and http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developer.asp#8 ) > it's quite unlikely that all that would be replaced by any > other format Yeah, it might be. But it depends on how aggressively Fraunhofer and Thomson multimedia try to make companies to pay licensing fees for commercial MP3 use. It might be that they're late... it's a bit similar situation as it was with GIF picture format a couple of years ago... > than something developed by the big > companies to protect their investments. Hmmm... AFAIK, Nokia has used _open_ standards very often - to protect their investments. In the long run, open standards and file formats seem to live longer. FTP is now about thirty years old, but who remembers Microsoft Network anymore (as an internet competitor - as it started, not as an internet collective - what it became after Microsoft realized that it can't own the internet)? In Nokia case, check out "Oped Standards Terminal" web site @ http://www.ostdev.net/ . Sponsored by Nokia. > ever and the new Nokia has > propably also some own format (AAC). Eh, are you talking about Nokia 5510? Just recently someone posted something about it to Commie. As far as I understood, the phone uses MP3. ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo." - The Holy Mad Cow http://www.holymadcow.org
