[opendtv] Re: News: New Cable Fight at Hand
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:40:49 -0400
At 8:16 PM -0500 3/29/11, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> What has this got to do with Apple?
Everything. The content is made available by the media companies,
over the Internet, and even via the encrypted streams cable
companies send to their subscribers. It is up to Apple to make these
streams available to owners of their appliances, not the other way
around.
NO. IT is up to the content providers to deliver this stuff in ways
that are compatible with the devices they want to reach. AND THEY ARE.
To support Apple devices it is very easy. These devices use standards
based video/audio codecs that are widely supported.
Or, perhaps, as Richard suggests, Apple prefers not to, for their
own reasons. If that's the case, and obviously it is, then go scream
at Apple, Craig. For once, put the blame where it belongs.
Why would I scream at Apple? I am completely satisfied with their
approach and support it. I am not blocked from access to anything I
want, except by the media congloms who will not allow their content
to reach ANY mobile device or TV browser (e.g. Google TV).
This whole thread is about the fact that the congloms want to limit
the rights of the MVPDs to ONLY deliver their content to legacy TVs.
For ANY other device they want to sell the content AGAIN.
What has FLASH got to do with this? It is simply one of many
technologies that are available to deliver content over the Internet.
Everything. As a matter of fact, over the past years, just about all
Internet TV content has migrated to Flash. Not saying that this is
the way it will be for all time, or it should be for all time. Just
that it's how things are for now. In past years, some sites required
use of WMP and Quicktime, and even longer ago, Real Media. But that
no longer seems to be the case. Even for the foreign sites. Everyone
migrated to Flash. If you want to play the game, you don't get to
make up your own rules. It's so obvious.
Just the opposite is true.
http://www.geekosystem.com/ipad-internet-explorer-9-flash/
Case in point, you cannot access these FLASH video files on Hulu or
> Fox.com with Google TV.
That's funny, Craig. All you did was give another example of a
service that begged to be discriminated against, and succeeded! Did
you already forget how the media companies singled them out? Hulu,
Fox.com, et al., work just fine. And it is not so difficult to
figure out how.
Your Funny Bert.
This has nothing to do with FLASH. It is a case of a content provider
BLOCKING specific devices that they choose not to support.
Stop making irrational connections between unrelated threads.
Regards
Craig
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