2009/7/5 Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Eric Flores wrote: > [...] > > On the other side, I'm firmly convinced that some vested interest could > > lobby and even pay the chipmakers for having them not adding support to Ogg. > > This is a free market, isn't it? > > As you say, it's a free market. If people want Theora chips, then it's > likely that they will become available. For that to happen there has to be > some demand for Theora support, though, which the spec's can't generate.
I think that if Theora support is recommended in HTML5, this *will* generate demand, since content producers and (most) browser vendors alike will take advantage of it. Chips may well, in that scenario, become available. Sam