At 04:26 +0100 1/8/07, Christopher Woods wrote:
The quality was abysmal though, and RealVideo? Urgh.
The simile employed in the DbD article is a little inaccurate, the more I
think about it; the BBC's choice of MS-based systems for its iPlayer
platform is more like their choice to broadcast in PAL - more or less an
international industry standard, even with its flaws (and subsequent
improvements and patches)... Because even PAL, as a standard, as it exists
today, has been quite significantly modified in its operation and
composition when compared against how it existed when it was first used.
So,
[...]
Choose PAL: choose life!
Gordo
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