On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:42, Scot McSweeney-Roberts <bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:08, Mo McRoberts <m...@nevali.net> wrote: > >> Given the specs haven't been finished yet, it's the preserve of >> precisely nobody _right now_. >> > > True, but I still would have expected at least one of the big > manufacturers to be on board by now.
Pretty sure Pace and Humax are. > Failing that, even someone like > Tesco saying they will have a Freeview HD + Canvas box in their > Technika range. I've not even seen any hint of non-committal support - > who is going to be making this "market destroying" technology? Well, "widespread support from the industry": http://www.projectcanvas.info/index.cfm/news/?mode=alias&alias=INDUSTRY-GETS-BEHIND-PROJECT-CANVAS > What's the point of going through all the trouble of defining a spec > if no one is going to use it to build something? At the moment it > seems like "we'll just dump this spec out in the world and like magic > it will appear everywhere". What're they going to do? Make the negotiations public? Committing to something like this is something which tends to happen in syncronicity. A bunch of manufacturers announce, once the specs are baked, that they'll be releasing products in time for <x> important date. Until then, you get only rumours. They're a paranoid bunch, generally. Anyway, mark the Olympics in your diary. M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
