fugusushi Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 OK, so for one reason or another i've been reading up a fair bit recently about codecs. It seems there are pluses and minuses to each of them and as such individuals will have their own preferences for one reason or another...the question/s is this; since many of these codecs are open source and free to use, why hasn't Sony (and indeed other makers) offered more options on it's players?and why don't the various music players out there include more of these encoding options? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 pata2001 Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Sony already supports MP3, WMA, and AAC. What else do you need? Want FLAC? Get Cowon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dr. zoidberg Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Ogg and flac would be nice. In fact, I prefer ogg over aac. The reason most manufacturers don't support these formats is that it costs them $$$ to do it. Given that your average joe has never even heard of these formats much less usees them doesn't make it worthwhile for a company to invest the effort in implementing them. Besides, manufacturers can get pre-made chips that can do hardware decoding of certain formats (notably mp3), which save the company the effort of developing a software decoder (which would also suck up more battery). In short, it's just not worth the effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ascariss Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 on the audio codec front sony is fine, it's their video codecs that I would like to see expended, especially, to wmv and divx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OK, so for one reason or another i've been reading up a fair bit recently about codecs.
It seems there are pluses and minuses to each of them and as such individuals will have their own preferences for one reason or another...
the question/s is this;
since many of these codecs are open source and free to use, why hasn't Sony (and indeed other makers) offered more options on it's players?
and
why don't the various music players out there include more of these encoding options?
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