Where, Oh Where Did myImager Go ?
I was wrong. Apology below.
After further research and a couple of emails from corporate employees at MSNTV, I must say my statement about the router was incorrect. Plausible, yes; but incorrect.
Here is what really happened:
http://myImager.com upgraded their Microsoft based server and added a program to compress output to reduce bandwidth loads. It is called Pipeboost. It does not send out a 'streaming' signal as was claimed by MSNTV. Thousands of PC users accessed myImager and viewed it on normal browser screens. I know of no one who had a browser that tried to open any media player. That is exactlly what would have happened if the signal had been in a streaming format.
There was contact between MSNTV and the owner of myImager, but nothing was resolved for quite a while.
Two days after someone showed my november editorial to MSNTV, the problem was resolved.
The obvious chain of events:
- MSNTV recieves report of problems accessing myImager.com -- a Microsoft based server.
- MSNTV contacts myImager.
- myImager answers questions about its coding.
- MSNTV shrugs their collective shoulders.
- MSNTV employee states that the ball is squarely in myImager's corner.
- MSNTV recieves this url: HEY! is this true?
- MSNTV fires off reply that I was wrong.
- The problem is resolved 2 days later.
What was the fix? MSNTV is not saying.
Am I sorry about my original editorial?
Yes, I am terribly sorry that I did not make my plausible theory known to MSNTV as soon as the problem started. Maybe then, they would not have sat on their hands for 4 months. It is all a matter of what they consider to be important. Obviously, the use of myImager by WebTV users was low on their list.
Until next time, blessings to all.
