Designing a licensable format is some kind of industry holy grail . Look no further than Sony , they try this all the time Phillips and Sony struck gold with the CD they made some profit whoever sold the player , but that patent has expired so royalty is not the same anymore , then Sony tried the SACD DSD thing. Etc .
There is some kind of balance that needs to be struck . Design a format for its own sake just to create license fee vs an universal standard that fulfills a consumer need . The CD was such a format and the DVD too . LP and cassette where fidgety and complicated and only the enthusiast consumer ever got the best out of these format . cd just fixed that . Seems to me that everyone wants to create the new FM radio , but they fall shorts as for example Apple wants thier monopoly . And other bizarre factors creeps in . Broadcaster are not happy to just broadcast anymore they want endpoint control too ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
