21st February 2014, 6:47 PM
That's basically the very idea I'm suggesting Weltall, so I agree, with one exception.
The problem with Blurays is that Sony owns them, lock stock and barrel. My suggestion isn't for a Bluray style "standard" but a truly OPEN standard, like the Wifi standard or the IP standard or the HTTP standard or the telephony standard or the broadcasting standards or the electrical grid standards or the metric standard or... and I could go on like this...
Anyway, my point is that the standard would need to be open to anyone but defined by a large gathering of companies, competitors namely, with a mutual interest in making the standard work.
The problem with Blurays is that Sony owns them, lock stock and barrel. My suggestion isn't for a Bluray style "standard" but a truly OPEN standard, like the Wifi standard or the IP standard or the HTTP standard or the telephony standard or the broadcasting standards or the electrical grid standards or the metric standard or... and I could go on like this...
Anyway, my point is that the standard would need to be open to anyone but defined by a large gathering of companies, competitors namely, with a mutual interest in making the standard work.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)