IMO, it was only easier to work with Windows Media and get to market faster because your developers were more familiar with it. Get developers who are familiar with standards-based video formats, and it will be equally easy to develop for them and make them ship on time.
This is the real danger of the Microsoft world -- getting everything to automatically use them by default, and everything else is a "tough conversion".
Yes, I've got a Mac. Yes, I currently live in Europe. No, I'm not even going to consider getting a SlingBox until you support cross-platform standards-based formats/protocols (as opposed to proprietary Microsoft ones), and you support the Mac.
I see another problem with this product -- most broadband providers I know of will not allow users on dynamic IP addresses to keep them for a long period of time. IME, 24-36 hours is about it. Most users don't have static IP addresses.
Short of registering with DynDNS.org (or some equivalent service), and having the router constantly monitor for network status and disconnecting/reconnecting and/or rebooting as necessary to automatically pick up the network connection again after it was dropped, and then re-updating your listing with DynDNS.org, how do you give people a single URL that will let them come into your SlingBox?
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IMO, it was only easier to work with Windows Media and get to market faster because your developers were more familiar with it. Get developers who are familiar with standards-based video formats, and it will be equally easy to develop for them and make them ship on time.
This is the real danger of the Microsoft world -- getting everything to automatically use them by default, and everything else is a "tough conversion".
Yes, I've got a Mac. Yes, I currently live in Europe. No, I'm not even going to consider getting a SlingBox until you support cross-platform standards-based formats/protocols (as opposed to proprietary Microsoft ones), and you support the Mac.
I see another problem with this product -- most broadband providers I know of will not allow users on dynamic IP addresses to keep them for a long period of time. IME, 24-36 hours is about it. Most users don't have static IP addresses.
Short of registering with DynDNS.org (or some equivalent service), and having the router constantly monitor for network status and disconnecting/reconnecting and/or rebooting as necessary to automatically pick up the network connection again after it was dropped, and then re-updating your listing with DynDNS.org, how do you give people a single URL that will let them come into your SlingBox?