DRM causes increased battery drain on MP3 players

[Mike Newman]

I believe the "study" compared

On 3/22/06, Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> According to this page:
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> http://rawdog.aamiic.net/
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> between 8 and 25%. iPods are not extempt.

I believe the "study" compared DRM'd WMA and AAC to vanilla MP3 files.
WMA and AAC both take more resources to decode. They should have
compared them to their non-DRM counterparts.

And where are the cheap Vorbis players, already?


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