[thelist] video format availability question
John Dowdell
jdowdell at adobe.com
Fri Aug 22 15:55:42 CDT 2008
Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> Not coming up with anything on this, so I'll just toss it out:
> Are there (proportionally) more Windows PCs without Quicktime,
> or Macs without Windows Media players?
The more I think about this, the harder it seems to measure. Some
QuickTime includes traditional Microsoft codecs, and vice-versa, so it
would not be directly tied to viewability. Virtual operating systems
make the question even more complex.
I'd guess Macs would have a higher proportion of Flip4Mac (which
effectively "replaced" Windows Media Player awhile back), because
there's more Windows Media video on the web than QuickTime these days.
But I don't know what adoption Windows users have actually made of Apple
iTunes. [shrugs, throws up hands]
Anything in particular you're trying to do? That might make it easier to
answer.
jd/adobe
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