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What this makes clear is that we need standards. If there was a standard way of getting video from the producer to the consumer then producers could either go
by AndrewDucker 15y ago
What this makes clear is that we need standards.
If there was a standard way of getting video from the producer to the consumer then producers could either go through middle-men (like Netflix) or host the videos themselves, and it wouldn't matter at all to the viewer.
I want to sit in front of my TV (or iPad, or laptop), choose some video from the biggest menu in the history of mankind, and watch it. I have no interest in who produced it, or who shipped me the bits. And I shouldn't have to have.
- jerf 15y agoWe have standards. Anyone can play an x264 file. Anyone can play an MPG. Wrap whatever media player you like around them. But... the standards don't have DRM. If you could buy videos like you could buy MP3s off of Amazon, and nobody flipped out about the DRM, we wouldn't need middlemen to do the job of standing up for their customers and making sure the videos actually work, which they basically wouldn't if the studios had their way, unopposed.