d6jg wrote: > The interesting thing for me is the future tense of the discussion with > manufacturers I.e. Do it first discuss later
BBC have definitely been talking to manufacturers/vendors - whether their marketing depts listen is another issue.Vendors won't move as fast BBC would like. It took some vendors 9 months to get HLS but hopefully they also did a lot of ground work so that DASH is a smaller development step. Vendors have to justify development budgets - so if a product works today with HLS - why spend money on DASH ? especially as there are no obvious benefits except for the BBC. Vendros needs sales to recoup costs of developing HLS before spending more on developing DASH. Vendors also have to take in account : existing products which were supposed to have a certain lifetime to recoup costs and make profit and which could be seen as obsolete by customer if they don't support DASH. Furthermore if vendors sells these products which cannot do DASH - then customer will feel cheated if it is not going to be able to receive BBC for next 10 years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
