{"id":8868,"date":"2006-04-10T23:56:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T23:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2006-04-10T23:56:45","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T23:56:45","slug":"maybe-drm-sucks-less-battery-life-than-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8868","title":{"rendered":"Maybe DRM Sucks Less (Battery Life) Than Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/battery_chart.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p> A couple of weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1033\" target=\"new\">we linked<\/a> to a report that CNet Labs had done that seemed to show that DRM (Digital Rights Management) technologies actually sucked up more battery life from portable players than non-DRM&#8217;d audio files. <\/p>\n<p> DAPReview did some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dapreview.net\/e107_plugins\/content\/content.php?content.265\" target=\"new\">follow up tests<\/a> and say: uh-uh. While the CNet tests suggested as much as a 25% difference, the DAPers think it&#8217;s more like under 3%. So, you can scratch THAT off of your list of reason&#8217;s to diss DRM. <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\" target=\"new\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, we linked to a report that CNet Labs had done that seemed to show that DRM (Digital Rights Management) technologies actually sucked up more battery life from portable players than non-DRM&#8217;d audio files. DAPReview did some follow up tests and say: uh-uh. While the CNet tests suggested as much as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe DRM Sucks Less (Battery Life) Than Thought&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}