Do you have to pay any money to use a wma? Theres free conversion software out there in great abundance, and none of it requires a cent out of your pocket. But nice attempt though
Do you have to pay any money to use a wma? Theres free conversion software out there in great abundance, and none of it requires a cent out of your pocket. But nice attempt though -------------- Someone always pays, be it on the serving/ streaming end, the hardware end or costs being transferred to the end-user when they buy their Widnows Media device...whatever.
Windows Media is not free and/or open at all. Free apps for end-users are offered to encourage use and deployment/reliance on a format, which is the same thing that happened with MP3. However, someone always pays in the end, usually in more than one way.
Actually, to create software that handles WMVs, Microsoft expects you to pay them. Any software that you can get for free to convert WMV is either absorbing the costs that they pay or is not paying them though by Microsoft they should. Eg Virtualdub, free video editor that Microsoft forced WMV support to be removed from
According to Bill Crow, this will be a royalty-free format.
http://blogs.msdn.com/billcrow/archive/2007/07/31/industry-standardization-for-hd-photo.aspx "Our goal is that HD Photo becomes JPEG XR, an open standard under the complete control of the JPEG Committee, with royalty-free rights to all required patents granted by Microsoft. Microsoft is actively participating with the JPEG Committee to produce a complete and detailed technical specification enabling anyone to create implementations in any programming language, on any platform and under a wide variety of business models."
But will it be a DRM free format? My biggest problem by far with WMP is the obnoxious level of DRM that wends it's way through it. I do not like for instance, having my computer quietly call a corporation and report my actions every time I view a file. how
The other thing that bothers me abut microsoft "standards" is how they seem to turn out to only really be implementable through microsoft products. OOXML is one example. There have been analytical papers stating that ooxml is so difficult to program for that it effectively shuts out all other systems. From what I gather in this article there is every possibility that this new system is exactly the same way. If this is true it is not a standard at all, but rather a way to destroy standardization.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Will we have to pay 3 cents to MS everytime we use a pic in the new format?
Do you have to pay any money to use a wma? Theres free conversion software out there in great abundance, and none of it requires a cent out of your pocket. But nice attempt though
That's .63477342 MS points.
blah @ Nov 2nd 2007 9:27PM
Do you have to pay any money to use a wma? Theres free conversion software out there in great abundance, and none of it requires a cent out of your pocket. But nice attempt though
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Someone always pays, be it on the serving/ streaming end, the hardware end or costs being transferred to the end-user when they buy their Widnows Media device...whatever.
Windows Media is not free and/or open at all. Free apps for end-users are offered to encourage use and deployment/reliance on a format, which is the same thing that happened with MP3. However, someone always pays in the end, usually in more than one way.
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/licensing/licensing.aspx
Actually, to create software that handles WMVs, Microsoft expects you to pay them. Any software that you can get for free to convert WMV is either absorbing the costs that they pay or is not paying them though by Microsoft they should. Eg Virtualdub, free video editor that Microsoft forced WMV support to be removed from
According to Bill Crow, this will be a royalty-free format.
http://blogs.msdn.com/billcrow/archive/2007/07/31/industry-standardization-for-hd-photo.aspx
"Our goal is that HD Photo becomes JPEG XR, an open standard under the complete control of the JPEG Committee, with royalty-free rights to all required patents granted by Microsoft. Microsoft is actively participating with the JPEG Committee to produce a complete and detailed technical specification enabling anyone to create implementations in any programming language, on any platform and under a wide variety of business models."
But will it be a DRM free format? My biggest problem by far with WMP is the obnoxious level of DRM that wends it's way through it. I do not like for instance, having my computer quietly call a corporation and report my actions every time I view a file.
how
The other thing that bothers me abut microsoft "standards" is how they seem to turn out to only really be implementable through microsoft products. OOXML is one example. There have been analytical papers stating that ooxml is so difficult to program for that it effectively shuts out all other systems. From what I gather in this article there is every possibility that this new system is exactly the same way. If this is true it is not a standard at all, but rather a way to destroy standardization.