____/ Ian Hilliard on Monday 30 July 2007 19:05 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ABC Starts Streaming "Lost" in HD
>>
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>> | There are still some kinks to be worked out, and we wouldn't suggest
>> | bothering with this service unless your broadband service downloads over
>> | 2 Megabits per second. Also, forget about watching if you just bought
>> | yourself one of those nice new Ubuntu powered Dells -- there's no
>> | support for linux.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.switched.com/2007/07/27/abc-starts-streaming-lost-in-hd/
>>
>>
>
> I was quite amazed when I read the headlines, because the other ABC
> (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has actually been very Linux friendly.
>
> Up until recently, they provided their news service in both Windows Media
> and Real Media formats. Recently, they moved to Flash. This makes it really
> easy for Australians on the go to get their daily news fix.
>
> http://abc.net.au/news/video/
>
> It is probably also a much cheaper way to produce the required results than
> some Microsoft specific solution. This also better meets the charter of
> providing a service to the widest possible community, hence making it much
> better use of taxpayer dollars.
If they require Flash 7+, then truly Free software gets access to the content
as well. Adobe introduced proprietary codecs in Flash 8 and gnash/swf2dec (??)
is nowhere near feature complete for Flash 8.
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