[Gllug] BBC News 24 at higher quality

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Mon 24 Mar, Matthew Thompson bloviated thus:

> I'll see your obligation and quote universal access. Now you may not 
> like Real Player but it's about the most universal format that people 
> can use and it's a lot easier to understand and install for users who 
> do not want to worry about file formats and plug-in types.

That's all well and good but it's an expensive, sucky format.  What's
more, it doesn't come as standard with 99% of computer installs,
whereas Windows Media Player does, if that's your argument.

> Also remember that this is the BBC which worked on providing their 
> Radio streams in Ogg Vorbis format.

I get the impression that was some of their geeks hassling for it but
there's been no actual allocation of staff, budget or anything to that
project.  It's now languishing without any active streams and no set
date for then they will return, which leaves us all with the very
sucky realplayer option again.

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