Re: [WSG] video standards?

[John Horner]

Our policy for some time was to go for Real, if there was only time 
or money to use one format, despite percieved problems with the 
company itself, simply because players were available for more 
platforms. There were, back in the day, players for Sun SPARC and all 
kinds of less mainstream platforms. There's a Unix/Linux player even 
now: http://www.real.com/linux/

The essential problem here is that a client is asking for one format 
only. Why? Two formats are always better than one. I don't know what 
our policy is now but it used to be "both Real and WMP if you can, 
Real if you can't".

jh
P.S. and I've had the cognitive-dissonance aspect of "Windows Media 
Player for Macintosh" explained to me as "Player, of Windows Media 
Files, for the Mac".
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