[Gllug] BBC + Web 2.0 + Microsoft = uh oh ...

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 29 Sep, Martyn Drake wrote:
> 
> On 9/29/06, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Anyone interested in getting involved ?
> 
> I certainly would.  I was bloody fuming when the BBC started their IMP
> trial (Internet Media Player or whatever they called it) and found it
> was for Windows only due to Microsoft's DRM system being deployed.  I
> asked about support for other platforms and they said they were
> looking into support OS X and Linux, but couldn't because they had
> "limited funds due to the TV license payer's money being used to fund
> this trial" (or something like that).
> 


   BBC research department are normally locked away in their home near the
M25, with continual threats of being "privatised", although they have had a
display stand at Olympia for several years with their video codec R&D.


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Chris Bell

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