[opendtv] Re: Adobe in Push to Spread Web Video to TV Sets
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:16:10 -0400
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
That's part of the nuisance of viewing TV online. It's not at all
unusual to discover that one of your sites suddenly decided to upgrade
its software, so you have to spend time searching for and loading the
new software.
Sadly it may be even more common for some video sites to say you need a
new codec but instead download malware.
And I don't think the world is ready for a single download standard
yet. It's the competition that keeps technology moving along even when
sometimes painful. Too much of any standard these days encourages
patent gouging. But nobody should switch codecs for only marginal
improvements. There is some threshold under which the gain/pain ratio
probably doesn't make it worthwhile.
- Tom
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>
>> An interesting article, but NO mention of h.264, which is being used
>> by YouTube and Apple. Then again, it's only software...
>>
>> If you can do Flash you can do Silerlight and h.264. via software
>> decode.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what was newsworthy about that article, to tell you the
> truth. Anyone who does any web TV viewing has long been aware that you
> need several different software packages to view this stuff, including
> Flash, WMP, Silverlight, decreasingly QuickTime, and some proprietary
> decoders such as the one used by ABC. And every time I spend time trying
> different sites, I find more changes and more software requirements than
> I used to need.
>
> That's part of the nuisance of viewing TV online. It's not at all
> unusual to discover that one of your sites suddenly decided to upgrade
> its software, so you have to spend time searching for and loading the
> new software. RAI recently went to Flash 10 and abolished its WMP
> options. The upgrade to Flash 10 wasn't even a straightforward upgrade.
> I had to go to the Adobe troubleshooting site to discover that in some
> cases, it would only install correctly if you first manually uninstalled
> the older version. ABC keeps updated its proprietary viewer again some
> time ago, so that too would become a chore if I really cared.
>
> In short, this is exactly what is WRONG with pretending that TVs should
> be more like PCs. It's more the other way around. If TV on the web
> expects to be successful, it's high time they quit their silly
> shenanigans and agree on some common and somewhat stable standards.
>
> Bert
>
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