Since you're so optimistic, give me an example?
My best projection is 5 years, and my worst is never. Of course it is possible, but it is not economically feasible, and no company selling portables would cut profit margins by catering to a niche market.

I'm trying to be optimistic, solely because optimism pays. What people say here, affects other people's thinking, regardless of the correspondence to reality, which changes with peoples' thinking. Get it ?

Though this player's specification does not mention MPC support, it does in fact support MPC playback.

@Pike
I want what you're smoking...

You didn't give any example, like sld requested.

Not much of a help. You can't find it anywhere outside China, the memory is too small (128Mb, with expansion maxed at 256Mb)

...and given it's not officially supported, I wonder if it's even easy (or at least possible) to upload MPC tracks to it.

Not much of a help. You can't find it anywhere outside China, the memory is too small (128Mb, with expansion maxed at 256Mb), and given it's not officially supported, I wonder if it's even easy (or at least possible) to upload MPC tracks to it.

With optimism you can turn events towards your goal, even if it was not realistic in the first place .

How do you think Floydian came to know this player supports mpc if it isn't possible to load mpc tracks into it?

A tip: with realism, you change nothing. With optimism you can turn events towards your goal, even if it was not realistic in the first place .

Considering the huge Chinese consumer market, you can never tell if it catches fire in China what will be outcome of that. Ya never know.

Being optimistic, I think there's a very good chance that Britney Spears will be my love slave.

Erm. Because The developer claimed it supports (not the marketer, mind you, the developer)

With optimism you can look like a fool when you are always waiting for the best while fate keeps shoveling shit on your face.

Well, problem is that the chinese market doesn't even know this player plays MPC. The company selling it didn't bother adding it to the sales brochure. Only the OEM manufacturer knows about MPC support.

Besides, I'd say you're a pessimist

Well, problem is that the chinese market doesn't even know this player plays MPC. The company selling it didn't bother adding it to the sales brochure. Only the OEM manufacturer knows about MPC support.

I guess the problem was that they were not sure about MPC's legality. So, they have tried to be on safe side and not mention on the spec.

For Chinese market, few people know MPC, support it or not is not important, so it is not mentioned in the product´s description.

c.b.2000 gave another reason:

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For Chinese market, few people know MPC, support it or not is not important, so it is not mentioned in the product´s description.

Of course it is due to uncertainity of MPC's legality.

If not, why would some company spend their precious time developing a format support but not mention it?

They already knew that few people are aware of this format. c.b.2000 just tactfully avoided mentioning patent issue.

But, when MP2 patents will expire, which is very soon, MPC support might catch fire soon.

IMO, his explanation makes perfect sense: almost noone in China knows about MPC, so why bother marketing it?

Just add a small mention of it somewhere, how much bother can that be really?

IMO, his explanation makes perfect sense: almost noone in China knows about MPC, so why bother marketing it?

That might confuse people. Some might wonder what C has to do with 3. Their support lines would be flooded by people asking about MPC and how to use it. Etc.

So you know more than the developer?

Actually, from c.b.2000's older posts, you can detect he implemented MPC playback on his player for HIS usage. Not because his boss asked him to.

I think it's you that is reading too much there.

IMO, his explanation makes perfect sense: almost noone in China knows about MPC, so why bother marketing it?

BTW, something you should keep in mind: his company is not marketing the player. They just developed the software and the circuitry, another company is responsible for the casing and a third one (the brand) is doing the sales to the end users.

Nobody has been able so far to detect if MP2 patents apply to MPC.

That situation is much worse because when you know what is patented, you can go and pay for licenses. If you don't know whether it is patented or not, you can't even start going after licensing. You are always under the fear that a patent holder comes out of nowhere and sues you into court for not paying license fees.

There are already more formats in use than just mp3, like ogg for example.

Besides, how do you even know that this company has any support lines? I got the impression that it's a relatively small enterprise.

No I don't. Neither do you.

But if the decoder does not have patent/licencing issue, does it really matter if they make a player with MPC playback support?

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