If you are using HTML 5 video tags, you might consider including OGG Theora file type in the source of your video files. Unfortunately, while both Safari and Google Chrome browsers can play Quicktime files without additional plug-ins, Firefox as of today decided to stay with an Open Source OGG Theora video files. We tested a couple of tools available on the market for Mac users. First one is Micro Video Converter (tested Version 3.0) is not recommended due to the flaw which renders the bit rate of a video file unacceptable. The online tool which is available at Online-Convert.com did a much better job and is recommended in this version. Micro Video Converter has a user friendly interface and hopefully they will fix this bug in the future release.

"UltraViolet is another feeble, doomed attempt by some dinosaur brain Hollywood execs to restrict the use of your legally bought digital purchase," wrote reviewer John Dettingmeijer. "UltraViolet is NOT a digital copy that resides on a device of your choice to be used on a device of your choice. It is a streaming service, for which you have to sign up and maintain an account, at the expense of your bandwidth, compatible with some but not all mobile devices."

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It appears that Comcast never gave up on the practice of download speed throttle, which affects not only p-to-p, but any legitimate downloads.

Back at FCC ruling:

By a 3-2 vote, the FCC concluded that Comcast monitored the content of its customers’ internet connections and selectively blocked peer-to-peer connections in violation of network neutrality rules. The selective blocking of file sharing traffic interfered with users’ rights to access the internet and to use applications of their choice, the commission said.

"Comcast’s practices are not minimally intrusive, as the company claims, but rather are invasive and have significant effects," the commission said, demanding an end to the practices by year’s end.

Today Comcast ISP still throttles downloads, including from Apple iTunes:

It's not just comcast business. It's just comcast as far as I can tell.. there is some funny business going on here.
 
Download from appldnld.apple.com - a1271.di3.akamai.net (64.72.65.215). Resolved identically both networks below:
 
At home w/comcast:
4-30KBps, iTunes often times out, have to use firefox to download. Mac, Windows, Chrome, Firefox, anything - SLOW.
 
At work *AT THE SAME EXACT DATE AND TIME* through vpn:
3.1 MBps!!!

How it works:

So what’s the issue? Level 3 told the world that Comcast had hit it up for more money in order to deliver traffic from Level 3′s customers (such as Netflix) to Comcast’s 17 million broadband subscribers. Level 3 said Comcast’s demand for more dough violated the principles of the Open Internet, which is shorthand for net neutrality. On the other side, Comcast, said Level 3 was trying to sell itself as a CDN while not having to pay fees to Comcast as other CDNs do. In short Level 3, was calling itself a CDN to its customers and a backbone provider to Comcast. This (plus the fact that Level 3 owns one of the largest Internet backbone networks) enabled it to undercut its competitors in the CDN business because it didn’t have to pay the fees that Akamai or Limelight did to get content onto Comcast’s network.

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It appears that web designers and their clients embraced Adobe Flash, tunnel pages, and users who are more comfortable with IE6 than with iPhone. Below are a few pics of the Web Sites that are not viwable on iPad, not to mention iPod Touch and iPhone.

Cartier

Hennessy

Rolex

Out of the top 10 luxury brands ranked by Forbes in 2009, none of their websites worked sufficiently to match their desktop user experience. Only Gucci seems to have created a site that can handle the technology requirements that Apple has placed on its mobile devices. Read more

Adobe is to stop making software tools that allow Apple's iPhone and iPad to use its popular Flash technology.

The decision by Adobe reverses an earlier pledge in which it said it would help get Flash working on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. In mid-April, Adobe released software called Creative Suite 5 that contained translation tools that automatically turn Flash code into programs that run on the iPhone. Apple updated the terms and conditions of the license software developers must sign to create iPhone and iPad applications which in effect placed strict restrictions on what developers can use to create these applications and effectively banned them from using code translators such as Creative Suite 5.

Adobe was prompt to display its dismay over Apple's decision to officially stop supporting Flash on iPod, iPhone and now iPad.

It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web. Read more

Apple’s campaign against Adobe Flash has become explicit. The company on Thursday published a website of “iPad-ready websites,” listing sites that support “the latest web standards — including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.”

Clearly Apple believes Flash is an outdated standard. Apple has reportedly been urging web developers to use HTML5 for video playback rather than Flash. Noticeably, HTML5 appears 10 times on the “iPad-ready websites” page.

Websites on-board the iPad-ready boat include The New York Times, CNN, Reuters the White House and others.

The QuickTime Player for Windows makes it possible to view and listen to many different types of media, including audio and video "embedded" in web pages. Firefox and other Mozilla browser users often ask why they are told that additional plugins are needed for content that QuickTime can handle, when the QuickTime Player is already installed. In most cases, it's just a matter of enabling the QuickTime browser plugin for a particular MIME type

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