Re: .brf files?
- From: "jeff flint" <jeffflint15@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:05:39 -0000
Hi I have been fascinated by this thread.
Has anybody asked the National Federation of the Blind about this?
The US NFB surely wouldn't permit it?
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifford Blackwell" <blackwell3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: .brf files?
But that is the point. I am merely guessing at this, but I suspect that
when APH agreed to license the firmware, it asked for and received an
exclusivity on the ability to play braille related file types to avoid
competition with the PTP1. It couldn't control what Humanware or Himms
did with their machines, but APH could control what the manufacturer of
the PTP1/Book Port plus could do to create a secure market for itself. In
other words APH sought and received an exclusive right to give itself a
competative edge over its closest competator.
Mind you I'm just guessing, but it seems like a reasonable supposition.
Does it bite? If you own a PTP1 in the U.S., yes, if you owna Book Port
Plus, no.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Stewart" <paganus@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: .brf files?
However, I understand that the Book Port Plus can read .brf files and it
is identical to the Plextalk but just uses a bit different firmware.
Weird stuff man!
Roger
On 2/23/2012 6:19 PM, Clifford Blackwell wrote:
It is precisely because the Bookport plus can read them that the
Plextalk cannot. I'm sure that when APH licensed the firmware, they
required exclusivity knowing that there was a virtually identical device
out there.
From APH's point of view, it's natural and good business practice.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Stewart" <paganus@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: .brf files?
This is a very odd one as my PTP Pocket is authorized to read NLS books
and these .brf files came from Web Braille so I'm allowed to use them.
This then begs the question as to why the Victor Reader can read them
with US English firmware while the Plextalk can't? Hope this gets
resolved in a future firmware release.
Thanks.
Roger
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