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<title>Tagesschau.de awarded for the use of Open Standards</title>
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<h1>Tagesschau.de awarded for the use of Open Standards</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">Today the ARD internet platform Tagesschau.de will
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receive an award for the use of Open Standards at the "<a
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href="http://documentfreedom.org/index.en.html">Document Freedom
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Day</a>". The prize is awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe
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(FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII)
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for offering the broadcasted shows also in the free video format "<a
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href="http://theora.org/">Ogg Theora</a>".</p>
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<p>In Berlin <a href="/index.html">FSFE</a> and <a
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href="http://www.ffii.org">FFII</a> will hand over a certificate and a
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cake with the "rOgg On!" label on to Sven Bruns, technical manager at
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tagesschau.de. In Hamburg, Sabine Klein, vice editorial director of
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tagesschau.de will accept a DFD cake on behalf of the editorial team.</p>
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<p>"In times of non-free video formats still dominating the internet,
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tagesschau.de is an example for other broadcasting corporations how to
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provide unrestricted access to their media.", says <a
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href="/about/kirschner/kirschner.html">Matthias Kirschner</a>,
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Germany-Coordinator of FSFE.</p>
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<p>In contrast to proprietary video formats Ogg Theora is free video format
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that every software producer is allowed to support without licensing
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requirements. Therefore software users are not dependent on a single
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software vender but can apply Ogg Theora on various devices.</p>
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<p>Stephan Uhlmann, member of the FFII board: "It's convenient to support
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the currently dominating format instead of using Open Standards. But this
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domination brings along patents whose exclusive control disables
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alternative software solutions and later innovations. In contrast to this
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users of Open Standards have free choice of their software. But no matter
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whether Apple, Microsoft or GNU/Linux: the videos of tagesschau.de will
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always be playable."</p>
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<p>Ogg Theora is supported by all media players in common GNU/Linux
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distributions. One can also play Ogg-files on Microsoft Windows or Apple's
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Mac OS X by using the VLC player. Furthermore, many modern webbrowsers
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directly support the format.</p>
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<p>On tagesschau.de, all regular videos are available as Ogg Theora. At <a
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href="http://www.tagesschau.de/tagesschau24/">tagesschau24</a>, videos
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are directly embedded via the new webstandard HTML5. In other parts of the
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website, it still needs to be manually set to "download the file" and then
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the format "Medium (Ogg)" has to be clicked.</p>
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<p>"We hope that all other multimedia contents – especially the media
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library and live streams – will soon be available in a free format.
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Moreover we would be glad about Ogg Theora or <a
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href="http://www.webmproject.org/">WebM videos</a> in higher quality
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levels", indicates Matthias Kirschner.</p>
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<p>Press pictures of the award ceremony will be available March 30. at 2pm.
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<a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/DFD-2011-Berlin-Hamburg-Bilder">on a separate
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site</a>.</p>
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<timestamp>$Date$Author: rolf_camps $</timestamp>
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<tags>
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<tag>front-page</tag>
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<tag>de</tag>
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<tag>DFD</tag>
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