Browser Woes

by David Burn on August 29, 2005

MTV overdrive Browser Woes advertainment
Random Culture points out that MTV has love for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Much to my surprise, when I tried to visit the MTV Overdrive section of the site, I received an error that said, “PC users with Netscape, Mozilla or Firefox: you need to run Internet Explorer to use MTV Overdrive.”
The biggest problem I have with this is that MTV is supposed to be on the cutting edge of culture, right? And this is something I would expect from a company who has no idea of what’s happening online.

I’m a Mac user. Here’s the error message I just received:

Detecting OS…
In order to offer a broad selection of full-length music videos on-demand and free of charge, MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect videos from unauthorized re-distribution.
Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available for Macintosh, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works on a Mac.

  • Andy

    I saw this a while back. Needless to say I’ve not visited the site since.

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