Am Wed, 8. February 2006 13:00 schrieb houghi:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:40:33PM +0100, email.listen@googlemail.com wrote:
It seems that there is an interest (from whoom might be interesting to know/prove) to push DRM capable devices into the market and IMHO this will result to a total disapearance of ogg players.
This time it is not (only) Microsoft. Sony and sorts have both shares in the market of the playes as in the market of the music itself. :-( You're right. I recognised this first when I saw that all wmv-drm capable devices don't support ogg anymore.
I would like to know if there are contracts between hardware manufacturers and license giving companies which ban all non drm aware formats. There have been such contracts in the past between MS and harware vendors which only allowed them to use MS-OS's if they want to have OEM-Versions of MS-$foo.
Oh well. There are ways to build your own car audio system. I remember that the first ones were running Linux. Compiling the kernel while listening to a ogg that reads out libdvdcss to you. How cool is that. :-)
Hhm, but this is no help to establish ogg (and theora) to a wider (or is it broader, sry my rotten english) audience, I don't think that a hanfull of enthusiastic homemade-audio-device factories will be able to solve this problem. I would say that building your own audio system is not what we can expect from a day to day user... So in the end we have to face that ogg and other free formats will not become popular or even will get noticed at all in the future. regards, Thomas