The Underscore Archives

I agree that it's mainly anti MS stuff - but I must admit that it has 
annoyed me for years that you could only listen to radio on WM or real 
player.

I've never installed an real player stuff on my macs cos 90% of the time 
that I've used it on PC it has crashed sooner or later. and the only 
time I tried installing windows media player on an old mac - it 
completly trashed the whole computer and I had to reformat the hard disk.

so now there's a new service, the BBC should stop wetting it's pants to 
get on the gravy train so quickly and do it properly - it's not as if 
they are going to lose advertising revenue, just means that BBC are 
going to miss out on a zeitgeist award for a year or two.

Juan

Michael Trim wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6236612.stm
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>
> Agree in principle with the Cross OS thing of course, but annoyed it
> will probably put back the iPlayer again for god knows how long. 
>
> It's not the BBC or Microsofts fault, they have to have DRM (which
> realistically only MS could deliver at the moment) otherwise they won't
> be able to deliver a lot (read the best) of their content because the
> producers won't let them.
>
> Seems ridiculous to me and appears to be simply about an anti MS agenda.
>
> Spoiling the fun for the rest of us, bloody mac users ;)
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