Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC News partnership with Microsoft

[Gareth Bowker]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 07:45 -0400, Matt Lee wrote:

> Maybe. Maybe in the eyes of Microsoft 'on any device' and 'accessible' may 
> have
> very little to do with using a non-free format.

Indeed. It'll be useful to quote MS's own statements back at them if the
result isn't playable on any device in an accessible manner though.

> Whatever happened to Dirac, anyway?

I've not heard much about this recently. I believe it's still being
actively developed, although I don't know of any "real-world" uses of it
yet.

The BBC have got a media player for playing recently-broadcast
programmes, but unfortunately because of the way the programmes are then
passed over to BBC Worldwide to be "commercialised", the player is
DRM'ed to the hilt and actively destroys downloaded media after 7 days,
from what I've heard. I don't know which compression algorithms they're
using in the player, it /could/ be Dirac...

Cheers,

Gareth

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