Comments on: M-Net On Demand

By: coda

coda — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:10:57 +0000

Yeah right, get someone else to do your work. Nice try. And by the way, Robert, ESPN.com's video player works just fine in my non-IE browser. Is that a digging sound I hear? Maybe you can learn a thing or two from ESPN - they're one of the biggest and most influental sites to have adopted a standards-based approach. :)

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:59:39 +0000

Unfortunately, the features included by the M-Net on Demand service DO require an IE & a Microsoft operating system. Many of the professional video based services (see also sites such as ESPN, or PressPlay) do.

We will keep our eyes open for developments on other platforms that would enable M-Net On Demand to be available to a broader base.

Please feel free to implement a similar service (with security, and with an embedded player for streaming media) that runs on the platforms you have mentioned in the article. We would be more than interested to see and test the result!!! :)

Kind regards
Robert

By: coda

coda — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:25:39 +0000

Nah, it wouldn’t be practical as a satellite service, everybody here has Sky already and why would they pay for one channel when they can choose from so many already.

By: tripeak

tripeak — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 16:20:57 +0000

Okay so when I mentioned this in my blog, I must admit I did not do any usability testing, and obviously there is various issues about it. It’s a neat idea though. They just need to do it via satellite maybe … a pay-per-view channel like Sony?