Comments on: HANA and the MPAA http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7332 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:11:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7332/comment-page-1#comment-26585 Reader's Write Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:34:09 +0000 #comment-26585 That's right, this belongs to the OpenSource / FreeSoftware community who works for the benefit of an Open Society. Any attempt to do otherwise will be futile. Sun, Samsung are good companies (Sun kinda), so I hate to see this happen. I can understand why Samsung, as an electronics company would want to have an input, but.... I love their products, and how they support OGG, and USB 2.0 and other OPEN TECHNOLOGY. IN SHORT, DRM is a bad bad thing. Any attempt to do that will backfire!!! That’s right, this belongs to the OpenSource / FreeSoftware community who works for the benefit of an Open Society. Any attempt to do otherwise will be futile. Sun, Samsung are good companies (Sun kinda), so I hate to see this happen. I can understand why Samsung, as an electronics company would want to have an input, but…. I love their products, and how they support OGG, and USB 2.0 and other OPEN TECHNOLOGY.

IN SHORT, DRM is a bad bad thing. Any attempt to do that will backfire!!!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7332/comment-page-1#comment-26581 Reader's Write Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:44:14 +0000 #comment-26581 "The MPAA is, of course, best known for its complete lack of standards" Too right! If new standards are going to be developed, they should be developed by the Open Source community, NOT big business. Big business standards nearly always have some lame flaw in them (especially DRM). If you asked me to define the minimum values for a new digital TV standard, I'd pick a resolution of 2048*1152 (16:9 ratio) @ 64 fps (or 128 fields per second) for the picture (maybe double or quadruple the pixel dimensions of that image). For the audio: 262144 Hz, 64 bit float, 8 discrete audio channels + up to 6 subwoofer channels, with the discrete channels intended to be positioned at the verticies of a cube and the subwoofers on the faces of it. See, lots of powers of two to make things easy for the programmers. And lastly, any form of DRM is strictly forbidden. “The MPAA is, of course, best known for its complete lack of standards”

Too right!

If new standards are going to be developed, they should be developed by the Open Source community, NOT big business. Big business standards nearly always have some lame flaw in them (especially DRM).

If you asked me to define the minimum values for a new digital TV standard, I’d pick a resolution of 2048*1152 (16:9 ratio) @ 64 fps (or 128 fields per second) for the picture (maybe double or quadruple the pixel dimensions of that image). For the audio: 262144 Hz, 64 bit float, 8 discrete audio channels + up to 6 subwoofer channels, with the discrete channels intended to be positioned at the verticies of a cube and the subwoofers on the faces of it. See, lots of powers of two to make things easy for the programmers.

And lastly, any form of DRM is strictly forbidden.

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