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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Marc,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#0070C0'>[The “anti-Ogg
camp”] are acting with their shareholders in mind. They have everything
to gain and nothing to loose as they all have their platforms, i.e. Window, OS
X, Itunes, cellular handset, that they control/use their propiety formats.</span><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0070C0'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>I guess you’re implying that AVC/H.264 is “proprietary”,
which is false.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>AVC is a standard under both the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group
(VCEG) and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>Also, AVC is a de-facto standard. Every iPod supports it. Every
PSP supports it. Every HD-DVD and Blu-Ray player supports it. The mobile ecosystem
has long since adopted MPEG-4, and most video services either use AVC now or are
on track to. Even Adobe, who’s had lots of success to this point with
proprietary formats, has finally adopted it a replacement of VP6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>Comparing apples-to-apples, Ogg Theora isn’t a standard. It <i>was</i>
a proprietary On2 video codec, and it didn’t become a standard just
because On2 gave everyone a royalty-free license, so you can see how some
people might still think of it as proprietary. The fact that it’s open-source
isn’t relevant, since of course there are open-source implementations of
AVC as well. It was already old technology when On2 gave it away, so it’s
MPEG-1-like inefficiency makes it retro (to put it kindly) on the PC, and completely
unsuitable for typicaly 3G mobile throughput.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>I hope this has been helpful,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>— Charles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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