____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 20 October 2007 13:50 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 19 October 2007 20:21 : \____
>>
>>> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> BBC Quietly Announces Linux/Mac iPlayer
>>>>
>>>> .----
>>>>| Keir Thomas writes "When the BBC released its new iPlayer
>>>>| watch-on-demand service, there were many complaints about the fact
>>>>| it was Windows-only -- the equivalent of current BBC broadcasts
>>>>| only being watchable on, say, a Sony television. The good news is
>>>>| that the BBC has announced a Flash-based player for Linux and Mac
>>>>| due by the end of the year. (The announcement is buried half way
>>>>| down the page.) The bad news is that it will probably only offer
>>>>| streaming, and not the ability to download programs, like the
>>>>| Windows client has. Quote: 'It comes down to cost per person and
>>>>| reach at the end of the day.'"
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1958217
>>>>
>>>> The "cost" argument is bullshit. The BBC already uses RealPlayer
>>>> technology to provide media, and this already supports DRM (if they
>>>> absolutely /must/ use it), so why did the Beeb ever even approach MS to
>>>> begin with ... they already had /all/ the technology they needed?
>>>>
>>>> And even now ... rather than use the Real technology that is already
>>>> integrated at the BBC, they'd /still/ rather turn to Adobe for a
>>>> half-baked solution.
>>>>
>>>> It's just a series of excuses designed to favour their new "partner".
>>>>
>>>
>>> Because they're recruited some ex-Microsoft people, I would imagine.
>>
>> Ask Microsoft's Douglas what's-his-surname why Microsoft corrupts the ISO
>> with OOXML. He'll just tell you that "it's simply a matter of Microsoft's
>> commercial (money) interests!" And yes... he actually said that in Malaysia,
>> IIRC. That's one of their most senior people.
>>
>> Same applies here. The BBC is now built to milk money from people and
>> offer 'protection' to the convicted monopoly abuser.
>>
>
> When commercial interests become synonymous with the corruption of
> government bodies, then something has gone very badly wrong indeed.
Hopefully they'll escape the BBC before they end up grilled by the EC (or
worse -- in a jail cell).
,----[ Quote ]
| Who are the people responsible for creating this mess?
|
| * Mark Thompson, BBC director general (DG)
| * Erik Huggers, group controller at BBC Future Media & Technology
| * Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology
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