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RE: Toshiba DVD Player With Divx (but no mp3?)

I guess it`s possible that they could be saving money, not in terms of the electronics, which are dirt-cheap, but the licensing costs. As I understand it, every manufacturer who makes a device that can decode MP3 has to pay a licensing fee - it could just be that Toshiba `put the money in an envelope behind the clock on the mantlepiece`, but didn`t pay it in... Credit crunch, and all that...

Now, here`s an excellent chance for the free and open OGG Vorbis compressed format to become widespread. No licensing fees required at all, and the quality of playback is every bit as good as MP3. If manufacturers used this, instead of MP3, everybody`s happy. Well, except for the beneficiaries of the MP3 license fees!