[X4U] **RANT** video stuff on the web
David Grieve
dgrieve at cfl.rr.com
Tue Nov 22 13:28:27 PST 2005
Just get flip4mac...10$ and you can use quicktime for WMV
Anne-Marie Concepcion wrote:
> At 4:32 PM -0500 11/21/05, Jesse Leo wrote:
>
>> I try to listen to a song clip on Amazon.com so I can decide
>> if I want to buy the album... Won't work. I try to stream my favorite
>> radio
>> station... Doesn't work... Etc, etc, etc...
>
>
> completely agree.
>
> In the past week I tried to watch a video on cnn.com ... nope. Tried to
> watch a video on mtv.com ... nope.
>
> Windows Media Player for the Mac is and has been at version 9 since
> pre-Jaguar (circa 2003). And it's not on parity by any means with WMP
> for Windows (which btw is at v10).
>
> It's *really* aggravating. MS is playing hardball w/Apple (by not
> upgrading their media sw for the mac) and we're caught in the middle.
>
>
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