“Mac or Linux users will be unable to use a service that allows
football fans to catch up with highlights from World Cup games.“The video highlights (around four minutes long), make up one
portion of FIFAworldcup.com’s premium subscription service, which
costs $19.95.“The decision to omit live feeds of matches (a service offered
by many Premiership clubs this season) has disappointed many fans,
but the technology used to deliver the service is set to spur even
greater controversy.“Vulture eyed Reg reader Thomas Shen flagged up the system
requirements for the service which clearly state ‘Mac, Unix and
Real media player’ are not supported and that the service is only
available for fans using Windows Media Player 6.0 or above…”
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