Apple announcement recap

[Scott G. Lewis]

Not so much in the cost but in the effect. Xvid support doesn't help  
with QuickTime acceptance or iTunes Store sales.

Xvid is a competing format, and Apple wants to further push QuickTime  
as the way to encode video.

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On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:42 AM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:

> On 15-Jan-2008, at 18:05, Scott Lewis wrote:
>>>> This makes the Apple TV a lot more attractive to me, but still no  
>>>> xvid/divx without hacking, which just seems stupid to me.
>>
>> Apple is pushing the iTunes store. That'd be like iPod's with WMA  
>> support - just  not worth it.
>
>
> No, nothing like that.  WMA is a Microsoft format that Apple would  
> have to pay for.  Xvid is open source.
>
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> It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust'," said Crowley,  
> closing his eyes as they went through Slough.
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