[bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
- From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:03:12 -0500
I say this with all due respect, but which part of "No other player
plays the particular audio format that NLS uses" is so hard to
comprehend? Before NLS can even consider allowing another device to play
their books, that device has to play the particular audio format NLS is
using. Before that happens, there's nothing that can be done. In the
case of the Book Port, NLS would have to allow APH to vert the files to
MP3's for the BP to play the files, and that's what NLS is concerned
about.
Bruce
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:54:33 -0600, "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> you're forgetting the tapes act up. Sometimes it's one's own player,
> and
> sometimes they came that way, and getting the player replaced can be a
> problem.
> I'll be glad to wait a few months for a Book Port II that plays NLS, but
> it
> isn't sounding like that will happen, and there's no telling how long it
> will take the library to get its players out.
> Because they're being so exclusive and high-handed about it, I'm not
> about
> to purchase the Stream.
> Hopefully the stuffyheads at NLS can get their legalized little brains
> around the idea that other devices are out there.
> No one likes monopolies.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Smith" <ka3lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:52 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
>
>
> >I don't know of anybody who can't already read NLS books on a player they
> > don't already have available. The only issue, I repeat, is purely personal
> > convenience...a device like the BP is easier to carry around than is a
> > four-track cassette player and people are seemingly incapable of exerting
> > that much effort.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Tim Snyder
> > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:24 PM
> > To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
> >
> > I still say that a person who really wanted to break the code could do so
> > and make books available. I certainly do not want to break their code.
> > Their severe protection is just making it hard on most people who simply
> > want to read NLS books on the devices they already own. If RFB&D could
> > make
> >
> > it kpossible for us to read books on the current bookport, then NLS could
> > make it far less difficult. Of course, HumanWare stands to profit greatly
> > from all of this proprietary stuff. I wonder how many decoding problems
> > NLS
> >
> > has experienced anyway?
> >
> >
> >
> > __________ NOD32 2563 (20071001) Information __________
> >
> > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
> > http://www.eset.com
> >
> >
>
>
--
Bruce Toews
E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: dogriver@xxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.ogts.net
Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net
Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com
Other related posts:
