[opendtv] Re: News: New Cable Fight at Hand
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:28:14 -0500
Dan Grimes wrote:
> 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.
Of course, Dan! It's a racket. And only those who stand to benefit from it,
i.e. certainly not the consumer, can possibly rave about this state of affairs.
This is why the ATSC and DVB-T set standards. It's exactly to avoid this sort
of mess. And that's why I have always found anyone claiming "we don't need any
standards" to be amazingly naïve. Yes, the Internet Protocol can support any
number of layer 5 and above standards to run on it. But so can ATSC's and
DVB-T's link layers. Just because you can support multiple standards does not
mean that doing so makes any rationale sense.
For one thing, it seems kinda obvious that if there were a coherent set of
standards, you'd be more successful marketing hardware accelerators that always
work. Wouldn't that have been a perfectly good way to get Flash (or you pick
any viable option that actually exists and is widely deployed already) to work
on handheld appliances, for example?
Bert
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