stechert;657926 Wrote: > Hello from Bloomberg! > > Please accept my apologies for any frustration we may have caused with > the changes we made recently to the Windows Media streams for Bloomberg > Radio and TV. What's going on is that we've been in a year-long process > of upgrading our web audio and video streams to higher quality formats > (both Flash and HTML5, with higher bit rates, adaptive bit rate > support, mobile support, etc.). > > At some point, it was time to decommission the old infrastructure, so > we did that. Unfortunately, we were unaware of the usage by (and don't > have any syndication deal with) the Squeezebox folks. > > Our programming is still available at http://www.bloomberg.com/radio/ > and we do hope you continue to tune in, but we also hope you understand > the goal of providing the highest audio and video quality... > > If anyone here is from Logitech, I can put you in touch with our head > of syndication. > > Cheers, > Andre Stechert
Andre, Just read your reply. I am confused re your reply as to why your new streaming is not compatible with an internet radio. Why would you ignore this whole growing market? To consider it the duty of each individual manufacturer, of internet radios, to call you to sign separate deals is extremely customer unfriendly. Why would you knowingly have this is a goal? i.e. You now know about the issue, but still choose to do nothing until manufacturers call you... Doesn't make sense. The fall out is that the ONLY loser is Bloomberg... As now I and others have ceased listening to BBR. I classify your approach as akin to what Netflix recently did in upping the cost of Streaming+ DVDs by 100% and saying we did it because we can. i.e. you and they are treating customers with disrespect. When you do this BBR is the only loser (I cancelled Netflix by the way as I did not want to do business with an arrogant provider). So Andre the ball is in your court. If, as you say, the blocking of your stream was an "accident", as none of you knew internet radios existed, then it is up to you to reach out and find a way of streaming to these devices which will soon number in the hundreds of thousands, then millions. -- IRJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IRJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7031 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90126 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
