<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:51 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org" target="_blank">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:54:42AM -0500, Tom Bongiorno wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Simon Hobson <<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > jedi <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Apple's apparent<br>
> > > hostility to MPEG2 has always intrigued me.<br>
> ><br>
> > Really simple and short answer - they don't give a **** because that<br>
> > doesn't earn them anything !<br>
> ><br>
> > Remember that Apple long since abandoned all but a pretence about it being<br>
> > about "the customer" - now it's clear that the whole strategy is about<br>
> > proprietary systems, customer locking, walled gardens, and taking a slice<br>
> > (30%) of everything the user spends.<br>
> ><br>
> > Perhaps I'm just getting cynical, but I get the impression that any<br>
> > ability they offer to access "your own stuff" is incidental and only<br>
> > allowed grudgingly on the basis that they can't get away with not<br>
> > supporting it (yet).<br>
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> You are correct, you are getting cynical. Again, none of the low power<br>
> streaming devices natively support MPEG2 for good reason. None of the<br>
> streaming services, that they were created to serve, stream in MPEG2. And<br>
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</span> That's a stupid reason. That ingores one of the original use cases<br>
for home video, namely creating your own content. People already have<br>
stuff. These aren't even terribly geeky people. They have it because<br>
previous generations of devices used those old formats.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Outside of our niche group, MythTV users and the like, who is creating their own MPEG2 content?</div></div>