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From: Peter Naulls <pe...@chocky.org>
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Subject: Re: BBC iPlayer petition
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In message <4059f9c24e.n...@user.minijem.plus.com>
          Richard Porter <dontuset...@address.uk.invalid> wrote:

> Please sign this petition if you haven't already:
> 
> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/
> 
> "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to prevent the BBC 
> from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to 
> Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its 
> service for other operating systems also."

Allow me to buck the trend and make an on-topic post here.   There are
plenty of open and closed formats that can be played on Windows, Mac OS
X and Linux.  But which one did have you in mind that would work on RISC
OS?  There's MPEG2, and that's about it, and even an Iyonix will be
limited in what it can play back.

Whilst the principle of the opposition is good, it doesn't in practice
have much relevance to RISC OS.

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