[opendtv] Re: New Sony COO bullish on Blu-ray
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 21:47:15 -0400
I actually have very mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, cable
companies are obviously not complying with the FCC's ruling they should
all be supporting firewire connections by now. And the pricing and
support of cable cards is obviously not designed with intent to really
comply.
OTOH, if you mandate such things you are locking in possibly obsolete
standards. All current Firewire/DTCP boxes can typically only make
sense of MPEG-2. What happens if the cableco would like to start using
MPEG-4/AVC or Dirac?
And that same switch would obviously cause a consumer uproar if there
were really a large number of consumers out there with "legacy" cable
card tuners that could not decode the new formats.
Unfortunately it seems the FCC and various standards committees may be
permanently behind the technology curve. Any mandates tend to lock in
the existing standards, and the benefits to their existing IP gatekeepers.
What's a poor boy to ask for?
- Tom
Albert Manfredi wrote:
> Tom Barry wrote:
>
>
>>CE vendors have not had much success providing cable
>>boxes.
>
>
> ...
>
>
>>When a phone or cable company does not willing
>>cooperate with an FCC mandate then it is like pulling
>>teeth to take advantage of any opening.
>
>
> Perhaps it's time for consumers to start screaming, Tom.
>
> I don't know about you, but I'd be seriously ticked if, for example, Verizon
> crammed a proprietary PC of their choosing down my throat, as a requirement
> for using their broadband service. And I would laugh at the silly notion
> that I should be satisifed to limit my participation in this system makeup
> to just choosing a PC monitor.
>
> There's nothing more legitimately "personal" about a PC than there is about
> one's audio/video entertainment setup. Even the phone companies have had to
> relinquish their ancient "we own everything including your telephone
> handset" model.
>
> Bert
>
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