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You seem to be implying that the BBC's Dirac work has produced no useful results; I would disagree. Sure, it's not the format-of-choice of BitTorrent users, and
by thristian 17y ago
You seem to be implying that the BBC's Dirac work has produced no useful results; I would disagree. Sure, it's not the format-of-choice of BitTorrent users, and it hasn't cropped up in the endless discussions of the <video/> element in HTML5, but that doesn't mean it's vanished. A subset of Dirac colloquially called Dirac Pro has been standardised by the SMPTE as "VC-2" (Windows Media Video was VC-1):
http://sonofid.blogspot.com/2008/02/vc-2-progress.html
...and there's a company selling professional video-encoding hardware using the Dirac Pro codec:
http://www.numediatechnology.com/products.html
Wikipedia says "Dirac Pro was used internally by the BBC to transmit HDTV pictures at the Beijing Olympics in 2008":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_%28codec%29
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoyou missed the point. in the private sector you don't need to justify costs back and forth to each other...either the product is wanted at its current production costs or it isn't. would it be used if consumers had to pay the full cost of its development? or do they only use it because those costs were offloaded to the taxpayer and it can essentially be given away?
- gaius 17y agoExactly. Could a startup get VC funding if it wanted to develop something like Dirac, which doesn't do anything groundbreaking?