Comments on: Microsoft adverts on the CBC? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4271 p2pnet.net - reader powered Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:31:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4271#comment-11426 Reader's Write Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:57:54 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4271#comment-11426 Thanks for the article Jon. Warning about Microsoft "lockin" is justified. I have written to the CBC asking for more information. for example, http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ shows "Live CBC Radio Streaming "In August 2004, CBC.ca moved to one standard media player for live streaming - Windows Media Player. "Windows Media player is currently the most commonly used format in the marketplace and using this format allows CBC.ca to deliver live radio streaming to the widest possible audience. Further, by supporting only one commonly used media player (Windows Media), we can direct more technical support and resources behind this standard format and use the efficiencies to offer more radio streams to more Canadians, both at home and abroad." What happened to Quicktime? the comment above thought it was still available. Thanks for the article Jon. Warning about Microsoft “lockin” is justified. I have written to the CBC asking for more information.

for example, http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ shows
“Live CBC Radio Streaming

“In August 2004, CBC.ca moved to one standard media player for live streaming - Windows Media Player.

“Windows Media player is currently the most commonly used format in the marketplace and using this format allows CBC.ca to deliver live radio streaming to the widest possible audience. Further, by supporting only one commonly used media player (Windows Media), we can direct more technical support and resources behind this standard format and use the efficiencies to offer more radio streams to more Canadians, both at home and abroad.”

What happened to Quicktime? the comment above thought it was still available.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4271#comment-11357 Reader's Write Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:06:40 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4271#comment-11357 This story is an example of why a lot of "mainstream" media outlets don't take blogs seriously. This story is completely rediculous and anyone who took five minutes (like I did) would discover that there is nothing to this. I reside in Toronto and suspected the story was all just anti-Microsoft fear mongering (not that anyone should trust Gates & Co.) so I checked with a friend at CBC (who would prefer to remain anonymous) this morning who laughed and assured me it was nonsense. CBC News does have a deal in place to provide content to MSN/Sympatico, just as CTV does. The CBC News web site is not sponsored by Microsoft or anyone else. What was probably found was content intended for the MSN.ca portal generated as a news feed by CBC. The CBC supports all major streaming media standards and offers content in Windows Media, RealPlayer and Quicktime throughout their site. If you actually bother to read their web site they provide an explanation for their decision to use Windows Media for audio streaming at http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ Please spend five minutes doing some fact checking before you write a story like this. This story is an example of why a lot of “mainstream” media outlets don’t take blogs seriously. This story is completely rediculous and anyone who took five minutes (like I did) would discover that there is nothing to this.

I reside in Toronto and suspected the story was all just anti-Microsoft fear mongering (not that anyone should trust Gates & Co.) so I checked with a friend at CBC (who would prefer to remain anonymous) this morning who laughed and assured me it was nonsense.

CBC News does have a deal in place to provide content to MSN/Sympatico, just as CTV does. The CBC News web site is not sponsored by Microsoft or anyone else. What was probably found was content intended for the MSN.ca portal generated as a news feed by CBC.

The CBC supports all major streaming media standards and offers content in Windows Media, RealPlayer and Quicktime throughout their site. If you actually bother to read their web site they provide an explanation for their decision to use Windows Media for audio streaming at http://www.cbc.ca/listen/

Please spend five minutes doing some fact checking before you write a story like this.

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