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It is a form of content protection: accessibility to hw to deal with it will be much further down the road for consumers than monopolies. Old format will be "go
by Create 16y ago
It is a form of content protection: accessibility to hw to deal with it will be much further down the road for consumers than monopolies. Old format will be "good enough" for home video until the inevitable comes.
Would GOOG fast-track vp8 as an ISO standard, like MS did with OOXML? After all, it is ubiquitous in flash video, just as Word is -- a de facto standard needing rubber stamping.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoI've also wondered if the needed hardware for H.264 was a form of dongle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle#Copy_protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle#Copy_protection for youngsters who don't remember this early form of DRM) but have concluded it's just because they come from the hollywood and hardware world rather than being internet and software guys. Also note that Microsoft only got to fast-track OOXML as an ISO standard because it had already been passed as a standard by ECMA, not because of anything inherent in OOXML (which wasn't even a de facto standard, the binary .doc was).
- Kovensky 16y agoVP8 is NOT ubiquitous in flash video, nor it could ever be. It was never released. Only VP6 is supported, but how many relevant people do you still see using VP6?