[opendtv] Re: New Sony COO bullish on Blu-ray
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:24:01 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> As I told Bert when I first responded to this thread,
> we are not discussion technical issues here. We are
> talking about a handful of oligopolists trying
> desperately to hold onto archaic business models that
> would already have been blown away, were it not for
> their ability to impede technical innovation while
> seeking protection from the politicians, who are
> cannibalizing our constitutional rights with respect
> to its original intent to proliferate intellectual
> property to the masses.
Infortunately, you tried to make this point by simply repeating what two
other parties with their own self-interests were telling the press, the
1394 Trade Association and HANA, and what they were telling the press
was just not very compelling.
I'm not sure how one can make the point that using IEEE 1394 is "more
open" than using IP over Ethernet. No one denies that 1394/DTCP could
work for home networking, even without the silly IP pretense by the way.
I think it's a heck of a stretch to say that Microsoft backs a more
standard IP/Ethernet approach to home networking only as an attempt to
create their own walled garden. There are too many players out there
capable of participating in an IP/Ethernet design approach for any such
goal to be realistic. Here's what I'm referring to:
> It is ironic that Kilroy points out that 1394 has
> been a success as a professional interconnect for
> digital camcorders and the world of professional
> digital media content authoring; a world that
> Microsoft does not dominate. In that world you can
> buy a wide range of devices from a wide range of
> vendors, plug them together and do your job. This
> is what SHOULD be expected in the digital world we
> are trying to create.
Surely, if Microsoft wanted to introduce 1394 interfaces, they could do
so.
I figure every party in this industry is after their own self-interests,
as they should be. The ones to go after are only those who are most
blatantly anti-competitive in their strategy. Support for IP/Ethernet
home nets cannot possibly be considered blatantly anti-competitive. And
one should wonder about parties who seem to operate against what ought
to be their own self-interest, e.g. CE vendors who seem thrilled *not*
to compete.
Bert
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