[opendtv] Re: Tech Dirt: Nielsen Finally Realizes That TV Viewers Are
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 18:14:02 -0400
On Jun 8, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>> Dan nailed it.
>> This is primarily about protecting a business model, not the
>> content.
>
> Or maybe not. Some YouTube content is only available in Flash still, for
> example. Or perhaps if it was content owned by a conglom, they want to
> dissuade use of IP appliances that are limited to just one search engine
> (can't blame them for that!!).
If this is true, it is likely older material. When I upload content to You Tube
now it is encoded using h.264.
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=2888648&parent=16547&ctx=topic
You can upload in MANY formats, but they re-encode for their servers.
Regards
Craig
> Cause and effect. Until you know the specifics of the case, any assumption
> that this is a "protect current business model" issue is pure conjecture.
> When I experimented after uninstalling Flash, had I not known better, I could
> have also come to the wrong conclusions about who was "blocking" what, for
> which nefarious reasons.
>
> On the other hand, what is totally obvious is that these "connected TV
> appliances" ARE, for reasons only the CE vendors know, blocking 99.9999...
> percent of the Internet, including any number of Internet sources of TV
> content which the congloms DO SUPPORT.
>
> Bert
>
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