Interesting stuff 2008-12-08
Last week, suffered a set-back when the Competition Commission .
, says the Guardian's Emily Bell today:
If Kangaroo produced a world-beating platform that grew like billyo then, of course, it should not be allowed to act unfairly, but the internet is not bandwidth restricted and the TV market and the web market are still different beasts."
The Kangaroo ruling is being , too.
Elsewhere in the Guardian, Jemima Kiss meets Tom Scott, right. Tom :
At its best, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã provides a great public service. At the moment that is pretty much limited to its content and storytelling, but in the past that also meant technology. It needs to work out what that means for the web; when it does, and if it is done well, that could be great for the web at large - both the people that use it and companies making a living from it. My worry is that that doesn't happen and we're all poorer as a result."
Viewers who own a may now be pleased to learn that is . This is thanks to a firmware upgrade from Sony.
Blogger with popular Ö÷²¥´óÐã series 'Survivors'. His main point of annoyance being the cast's mobile phones...
I'm willing to bet the Ö÷²¥´óÐã (thanks to the unique way it's funded) splurged on a job lot of cheap pay as you go mobile phones, and bought about three top-end phones, two of which Spooks nicked, before the Survivors crew could finish writing their script out on the back of a fag packet...
I mean I wasn't expecting a Nokia N96 or anything, but a phone released in the last couple of months would've been nice."
Jem Stone offers -- highlighting some of the good to come from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's .
Comment number 1.
At 8th Dec 2008, Alex wrote:What codec/stream do we get on the PS3 now? Is it the same as Flash 9 on PC's or the limited bitrate for the Wii? Gory technical details please!
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At 8th Dec 2008, The Phazer wrote:It's the Flash 9 PC stream on a PS3.
As I understand the Wii stream is actually as high, bandwidth wise, as the PC stream, but it just looks rubbish because Flash 7's video codec is far less efficient.
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At 8th Dec 2008, Briantist wrote:I'm wondering when there will be an Android version of the iPlayer...
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