Will someone (preferably Engadget) please do the investigation to work out what's really going on here and what it means for customers. I refuse to use DRM so I'm not quite sure why I care, except that my PMP of choice is a hacked Creative Zen Xtra with PFS firmware. So:
- How dead is PFS? And how dead is MTP? Can we expect PFS/MPT to fade so that at some stage in the future, WMP xx (where xx >11) won't be able to sync with PFS/MTP hardware? Will that then mean that PFS/MTP plugins for things like Winamp will start to fail?
- What will the PFS hardware manufacturers do now? Ideally they should just turn their backs on this sorry mess and produce a non-DRM PMP that uses plain old USB Mass storage.
- Why would anyone allow themselves to get caught in a Zune DRM trap when people in the PFS DRM trap were cut loose? Who's to say it won't happen again?
- Zune is apparently being delayed outside the USA because the music stores aren't ready. But ISTR that the iPod was a perfectly good PMP sold in these markets before iTMS was launched there. Is it really no good unless there's the download service back up?
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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Will someone (preferably Engadget) please do the investigation to work out what's really going on here and what it means for customers. I refuse to use DRM so I'm not quite sure why I care, except that my PMP of choice is a hacked Creative Zen Xtra with PFS firmware. So:
- How dead is PFS? And how dead is MTP? Can we expect PFS/MPT to fade so that at some stage in the future, WMP xx (where xx >11) won't be able to sync with PFS/MTP hardware?
Will that then mean that PFS/MTP plugins for things like Winamp will start to fail?
- What will the PFS hardware manufacturers do now? Ideally they should just turn their backs on this sorry mess and produce a non-DRM PMP that uses plain old USB Mass storage.
- Why would anyone allow themselves to get caught in a Zune DRM trap when people in the PFS DRM trap were cut loose? Who's to say it won't happen again?
- Zune is apparently being delayed outside the USA because the music stores aren't ready. But ISTR that the iPod was a perfectly good PMP sold in these markets before iTMS was launched there. Is it really no good unless there's the download service back up?