[opendtv] Re: News: New Cable Fight at Hand
- From: dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:22:24 -0700
Kon: "The difference between you and me is that you [Craig] are a complete
Apple fanboy, incapable of objectively discussing Apple and its
competitors.
I don't have that problem (on my desk I have two ipads, three iphone4s, two
n900s, an android tablet and a nokia e7)."
Dan: "This quote is a brilliant example of what is wrong with our media
distribution technologies!"
Kon: "...Who's fault was it? The typical excuse: 'it's adobe's job to do
this' 'it's the handset manufacturer's job to do this'..."
Cliff: "Until there can be universal agreement on how best to accomplish a
given technical process, the world is doomed to having millions of
"standards", none of which is compatible with the others.
Kon: "For streaming media this has largely been eliminated by a few
vendors. I'll mention Wowza since I make use of it and we use it in
clusters to provide video and audio streaming to mobile CDN customers...
"That way you target all the major handset manufacturers without requiring
a dozen different files of the same video, and now you only have to worry
about how do present the media on the handset."
So the point I was making when I said "what is wrong" is that one can get
video to multiple devices (computers, gaming, handhelds, etc.) by doing
things a few ways:
1. Transcode it into a bunch of different file types and have the customer
pick.
2. Pay a bunch of money to a service that can transcode and serve it, for
which there are only a few. They know it and make you pay the premium.
3. Be a software engineer with some very special knowledge (like Kon) to
build your website and delivery platforms.
And each of those solve your problem for today, for tomorrow it will all
change! I suppose it needs to be this way and always will, lest someone
get more money than someone else.
Dan
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