Yes, very interesting... I have to wonder though, what about the bandwidth problem? There's not enough bandwidth spread out over a great enough part of the population yet to see realistic media-free content delivery. Perhaps if they were dealing with crappy DVD quality video or less they could get away with it with MPEG-4 h.264... but Microsoft isn't going to be able to kill the move to HD just because the bandwidth companies want to squeeze every penny out of their customers by not having any bandwidth "jumps" of speed.
And none of that even accounts for the inevitable backlash against "buying a license" that is going to happen one day when Apple changes their licensing structure and everyone discovers they don't own their iTMS tunes and have to pay Apple a ransom to get access to things they already paid for.
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otakucode @ Feb 16th 2006 12:56PM
Yes, very interesting... I have to wonder though, what about the bandwidth problem? There's not enough bandwidth spread out over a great enough part of the population yet to see realistic media-free content delivery. Perhaps if they were dealing with crappy DVD quality video or less they could get away with it with MPEG-4 h.264... but Microsoft isn't going to be able to kill the move to HD just because the bandwidth companies want to squeeze every penny out of their customers by not having any bandwidth "jumps" of speed.
And none of that even accounts for the inevitable backlash against "buying a license" that is going to happen one day when Apple changes their licensing structure and everyone discovers they don't own their iTMS tunes and have to pay Apple a ransom to get access to things they already paid for.