Following is a Email transcript between myself and Philip Hodgetts, a well known pundit in the world of Media.
I feel its an interesting read and Phil has given permission to post.
Philip Hodgetts wrote:
On Sep 24, 2007, at 12:17 AM, James Gardiner wrote:
Thought you might like this one…
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070923-drm-advocates-getting-nervous-about-consumer-backlash.html
Yes interesting. Nice find.
I am surprised [...]
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Obviously there is a great need to bring this unabated use of [...]
Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight · codecs · flash
More and more every day, Mac OSX is showing itself to be the operating system of choice for everyone, except the enterprise. Any technology person I respect, are either using a Mac, or wanting to use a Mac. (I am one of them). However, the main reson I am not using a Mac [...]
Firstly, I would like to say that I think the iPod-touch looks fantastic. I would even say it is going to outsell the iPhone. But after seeing the online demos, Apple missed one simple but very important feature that would make it invaluable to me and I would expect many readers.
Let me set [...]
Tags: Apple
It is pretty much accepted on all sides now that Digital Rights Management (DRM) for Music is over. We will have the freedom to play downloaded content on any device. However, the war on Video is only just starting to hot up. Lets look at a few early skirmishes.
A major development in [...]