[vorbis] Hardware list on vorbis.com

[Manuel Lora]

Hello,

If you are willing to actively maintain such a list, and email me updates, 
feel free to do so and I'll see about putting up a page. We have some pretty 
decent HTML monkeys around :)

Thank you for the interest,

<p>Manuel Lora

Vorbis: Open, Free Audio :: http://www.vorbis.com

<p>On Wednesday 29 January 2003 23:58, Tom Felker wrote:
> I like the vorbis.com site, and it was my first contact with Vorbis.
> Hardware support has never been hugely important to me, but the
> perceived lack of hardware support keeps many people from using Vorbis.
> I think there should be a list of Vorbis-supporting hardware right on
> vorbis.com.
>
> There are already a few non-PC devices that can play Vorbis (DP-450 DVD
> player, Zaurus, Palm), as well as rumors of support to come
> (<http://www.pontis.de/site_e/produkte/pl_600_e.htm>), efforts to
> support Vorbis on portable MP3 players, (iRiver, Neuros) and random
> links like <http://www.phatnoise.com/products/index.php> and
> <http://www.kenwoodusa.com/excelon/excelonKeg.jsp> that I just found on
> Slashdot in the "FLAC joins Xiph.org" thread (and haven't checked yet).
>
> Since I've been waiting for Vorbis support before buying MP3 players,
> car stereos, etc., I've kept an eye out for these things, but I'm sure
> the above is nowhere near exhaustive.  I haven't gone out of my way
> looking, but I've looked harder than most people would.
>
> Especially for people who will only do three clicks of research when
> evaluating a new format, there ought to be a central list of these
> devices, probably on vorbis.com, perhaps one of the icons on top, like
> Software.
>
> http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/hardware.html isn't quite what I'm
> thinking of, that seems to be more a list companies that should, or are
> working with Xiph to, support Vorbis.  I mean something like the lists
> of software that uses Vorbis, with a link and a short description.  It
> would also be nice to see news on the front page when new devices
> support Vorbis.
>
> It seems some companies are supporting Vorbis but not going out of their
> way to tell people; with a list they'd get the credit they deserve, and
> we'd increase the perceived level of acceptance.
>
> I'd be happy to help in this.  Although I've never written much HTML, I
> can at least collect, research and confirm links.  Is there anything I'm
> missing?  If people think this is a good idea, I'll try mailing the
> site's feedback address, and start a list on my own.

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