[LINK] Political Debate - online streaming

[grove at zeta.org.au]

Hi,
just a quick word.....


The ABC only presented me with a Microsoft format .asx file.

As I am on Solaris/SPARC at work and use FireFox then I was pretty much out of the game since 
there isn't much app support out there for MS products on such systems.

At the SMH, I fared much better - the streaming just worked.

Interestingly, there were 3 of us watching on our SPARC boxes 
and one of us got slightly different presentation to the others, 
such as different camera perspectives and so on.

Well done commercial operator SMH for adopting a portable standard viewable by even the 
most anti-MS operators.

Boo to the public ABC for insisting on using a closed protocol for public consumption
and not providing an Open Standard or at least a Portable one.


rachel

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Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
grove at zeta.org.au                http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
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