[BC] HD Radio Article

[Gary Blau]

The biggest reason is listeners in the at-work environment, where many
webcasters find their primary audience, do not have rights to download
and install software, even relatively innocuous things like Winamp.  IT
administrators have been choking down that security hole dramatically in
the last year or so to protect their networks, and rightfully so.  That
leaves Windows Media because it's already there within the XP OS
install.

This is extremely frustrating to us and others who want to deliver a
quality product at a reasonable cost per listener.  If MS got on the
stick and supported the full MPEG standard within their Media Player,
the problem would go away.  But then they would have to give up on
trying to force their now technologically obsolete proprietary audio
codecs on the rest of the world.

g  


Goran Tomas wrote:
>...I don't see why a fact that Windows Media Player does not
> play AAC/aacPlus would be a problem...