[BC] HD Radio Article

[Goran Tomas]

--- At 26.2.2006 21:25, Gary Blau wrote: ---
>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.

In that case, you have a point. In such environments Windows Media 
Player is really the only option :-(

>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.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure M$ is even considering to implement 
MPEG-4 standard. They have been able to force both HD-DVD and Blu-ray 
DVD standards to include their WMV codec, as a third codec besides 
MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. I think they think they are powerful enough to 
dictate standards (even though their product is in this case 
inferior). And unfortunately they very well might be... :-(


Regards,
Goran Tomas