[vorbis] Philips && vorbis support

[Paul de Weerd]

Hi all,

A few weeks ago, I sent a mail via the Philips website concerning
their portable digital music players (Rush, Expanium, etc.) Below you
will find my mail and the response from Philips.

As you can read, they have no intention to support Ogg Vorbis in the
near future. Perhaps if more of us ask for this kind of support, they
will be interested in adding support. So, go to the philips website
and ask for Vorbis support ! Spread the word ! ;)

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

----- Forwarded message from PHILIPS <PHILIPS at SITEL-BE.com> -----

Delivered-To: weerd at weirdnet.nl
From: PHILIPS <PHILIPS at SITEL-BE.com>
To: "'philips at maar.nu'" <philips at maar.nu>
Subject: RE: ceaudio - NETHERLANDS - HOME_AUDIO*NL1-335668
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:18:26 +0100 

Dear Mr. de Weerd,

<p>First of all we would like to thank you for your interest in Philips.

I have checked with the respective Product Managers on Expanium and RUSH,
and I was being told that there is no plan on 
supporting the Ogg Vorbis compression format in the near future

We sincerely hope to have informed you to your satisfaction.

In the future, should you have any questions please do not hesitate to
contact the Philips Consumer Center. 
The telephone number is: 0900-8406 (EUR 0,10 cents per minute) and can be
reached from Monday till Friday between 8am and 8pm.

<p>With kind regards,

G. Hopman
Philips Consumer Center

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	PHILIPS 
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:25 AM
> To:	'philips at maar.nu'
> Subject:	RE: ceaudio - NETHERLANDS - HOME_AUDIO*NL1-335668
> 
> 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	philips at maar.nu [SMTP:philips at maar.nu]
> 	Sent:	Sunday, February 17, 2002 2:52 AM
> 	To:	philips at sitel-be.com
> 	Subject:	WWW: ceaudio - NETHERLANDS - HOME_AUDIO
> 
> 
> 
> 	Company   : -
> 	Name      : Paul de Weerd
> 	Address   : Please use e-mail
> 	City      : Amsterdam
> 	ZipCode   : 1000 AA
> 	State     : -
> 	Country   : NETHERLANDS
> 	Telephone : 020 654321
> 	Subject   : ceaudio
> 	Department: HOME_AUDIO
> 	E-mail    : philips at maar.nu
> 	Age       : 25
> 	Sex       : M
> 
> 	Comments:
> 
> 	I'm a happy user of the Expanium 101. My question is : Will Philips
> 	MP3 products (such as the RUSH or Expanium series) support Ogg
> Vorbis
> 	in the near future ? 
> 
> 	Since Frauenhofer/Thompson hold patents on MP3 technology, every
> MP3-file
> 	and MP3-enabled product requires a fee paid to this company. Ogg
> Vorbis
> 	is completely patent-free and thus has no such requirement. Also,
> Ogg
> 	Vorbis sounds far superior due to better psycho-acoustics modeling.
> 
> 
> 	Please consider adding Ogg Vorbis support to your digital music
> players.
> 	More information on Ogg Vorbis can be found on
> http://www.vorbis.com/
> 	and http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/
> 
> 
> 

----- End forwarded message -----

PS: Some personal information is false (but I do live in Amsterdam ;)


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