MTV.com as bad as Real

It looks like Real isn't the only website out there with anti-Mac content. Kat Parr over at our sister-blog Cinematical posts about the woes of dealing with MTV.com on a Powerbook. If you go to MTV.com and try to watch the new Batman Begins trailer, you are met with the following message: "WINDOWS MEDIA TEST Sorry, video is not supported for Macintosh computers at this time."

As Kat notes, "It seems that I, as a Macintosh user, don't get to see any moving parts on MTV's website, because they're officially 'PC-only.' Not even their premium broadband channel, MTV Overdrive, will let a poor sap like me in: 'MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect videos from unauthorized re-distribution.'"

When are distributors of content on the internet going to realize that if it's not open to all platforms and freely available, then you're cutting out a rather large slice of your would-be customers? Stop fearfully worrying about protecting your video ads for your movie, and start promoting the damn movie, already!

ps—DRM is still the devil.