I too fear that partially government funded broadcasters will attempt to jump off this cliff as well.
Forcing people into branded apps or tracking users through logins with tax funded radio should be avoided. People want to flip the channels quickly and if the big brands cloister themselves, diverse sources will be that much harder to find. With an election coming up in the UK, any chance some parliamentary candidates or parties might sign on to positions that prohibit government funded broadcasters from not publishing their open streams, limiting links/carriage of those streams, or tracking user listening behaviour? Join up http://facebook.com/groups/bbcradioforall And share. Steve On Feb 16, 2015 5:30 PM, "Rob de Santos" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is technically possible, and some devices do, to support HDS streaming > without supporting Flash. Ironically one of the explanations the BBC has > given is that they want to avoid "proprietary standards". Of course, that > is precisely what Apple HLS and Adobe HDS are. > > You're right Rich, most podcasts are MP3 so it's very unclear what will > happen with BBC podcasts when MP3 streaming is turned off. Will they only > offer them on iTunes? Will they convert them to MP3? > > The part I fear is that if the BBC sticks with this, how many other > broadcasters will play follow the leader? > -- > -Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Cuff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 4:27 PM > To: Rob de Santos; Shortwave programming discussion > Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Changes to BBC Radio streaming, future impact on > World Service formats? > > But mobile devices, as a class, don't support Flash -- because Adobe > doesn't support Flash for mobile devices! > > And, almost by definition, aren't podcasts nearly all MP3 files? > > What are these folks thinking? > > RC > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Rob de Santos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The BBC has decided that HLS/HDS/DASH are all they want to support in > > the future. MP3 streams at 128k will be provided for some unannounced > > short time frame (probably less than a year) and it will also be shut > off. > > _______________________________________________ > Swprograms mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > >
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