Bigpond Video - What is Telstra’s problem?
Sometimes I just shake my head in dismay. Take Telstra. Resourced like no other, yet just having just visited their tv/video site, bigpondvideo.com, and using firefox on my mac, I find they put out junk that says
“This site has been optimised for Internet Explorer 6 and above. For the best experience, please view this site using Internet Explorer”.
what? They’ve got a site that looks to be entirely flash, and yet they choose to use wmv for video playback (even when there aren’t DRM requirements), and can’t get it to work in Firefox (I just tried with XP and no luck there either).
Its actually good news, because when Telstra can’t execute properly, it leaves an opening for the smaller players to get it right. And when they set the bar so low for a web experience … well, they just make the rest of us look good!