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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
Thank you for proving my point, once again.
First, you were upset that my link was a direct link. Now, you're saying the iTouch Senior Citizen Edition can't view raw links. Unless, of course, you mean something different with "raw video link", which seems unlikely and weird if true.
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HUH??? how are you not getting this? raw link= direct link.. A direct link is just a file download.. you get that right? The BROWSER has no CLUE what the file is.. because html4 doesn't KNOW the difference between a psd and a mpg file... because there is no TAG to support either. No media company is going to serve copyrighted material over a direct link... how do you not get this?
If a direct video link works in an iTouch Senior Citizen Edition it's because Apple wrote hooks into the browser to detect and play video.. do you have any idea what a massive security hole this open up??? Either way,
it is not served as video by html4, it is a "dumb" file download on html4 that Apple may compensate for with browser/OS hooks. regardless, it's a moot point because the files are NOT being served that way... nor does even Apple expect that.. which is why they keep lying about html5 support being here already in a viable way.
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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
Not only is the source shaky at best but the article Jobs referred the alleged emailer to makes a lot of sense. No where does it say they won't support it, especially if it "wins".
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Again, let's stick to NOW... Apple does not support it now.. no one knows what they will do eventually.
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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
I'm assuming you're saying you can't actually see it because it's flash?
Again, you'd be wrong.
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Here is where your ignorance of the subject truly shines through. Get yourself an iTouch Senior Citizen Edition and go to any of those sites... YOU CAN NOT WATCH THEIR VIDEOS. PERIOD. YOU GET A BIG BLUE BLOCK WITH A QUESTION MARK ON IT! Those sites use different plugins (Flash, Divx, etc) that are not supported by the iTouch Senior Citizen Edition... you simply CAN NOT watch video on those sites from an iTouch Senior Citizen Edition. please show me how you can watch video from those sites...
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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
Who said they're refusing (other than Hulu, NBC and TW - and those are for purely DRM issues)?
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They are refusing by the fact that they are NOT doing it and haven't announced any plans to do so.
Let's keep it simple... if you have an iTouch Senior Citizen Edition in front of you right now... you can NOT watch a majority of video online or even close to it. The figure is less then 25%.. my best guess is 10% (mostly due to some html5 video adoption by youtube)