Comments on: Industry groups seek HD dominance

High-definition entertainment is coming, and that means more standards bodies and trade groups are mobilizing.

[shadowself]

Too many

Too many "standards" and "standards groups" creates an oxymoron. With so many different "standards" that will very likely NOT be interoperable buying into any one will be like chosing a computer.

You can choose Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD UNIX, System V UNIX or any other "standard" OS. However, try to run Photoshop written for Windows on a Mac or run IMSL written for BSD UNIX on Windows.

Having 18 different "standards" for HDTV is bad enough. Now we might have to worry about several different "standard" ways for these 18 different HDTV signals to be interconnected.

Sounds like the perfect way to make HDTV never happen -- make it so confusing no one will know what to do.

[just_some_guy]

Too late

Many of us have already bought HD TVs, satellite receivers, etc. Are we supposed to just trash them when the new "standards" are implemented? (That's rhetorical - obviously, manufacturers want us to buy all new stuff.)

[Adam Lenio]

this is great

by making full use of 1394, CE professionals and consumers
alike will have much greater ease of use, quality of service, and
intercompatability. what is interesting is that it makes no
mention of tecStream which can do all of this today.

[dlwhite46]

DLNA not DLRA

The organization that Intel helped spawn out of the form Digital Home Working Group is called the Digital Living Network Alliance or DLNA.

You'll find them at http://www.dlna.org