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Superior technology doesn't make a standard. One just needs to look at the windows install base to see that. Consider dtv will require at least a 600megahertz, this alone means everyone will have to updgrade their system. What's that, the closed source dtv software uses up 60% of your system's memory, prepare to buy more memory.

consider this instead. adsl driver included in the linux kernel to be distributed with all cheap linux boxes. Freenet nodes housing gigabytes of divX+ programming along with a freenet client built inside your mozilla browser. your tivo(tm) style freenet content listing guide will pop up in a separte browser window and when you click on the link, it'll launch the divX+ plugin to play the mulitmedia within your mozilla browser.

don't through intel out of the picture yet folks, the cost of a digital telivision expierence will be cheap, and you can use low end intel commodity parts to build the future divX/freenet/mozilla telivsions. Yes we will be watching television on our telivsions, but it's not going to be dtv technology.

A TechWeb article from late July (Click 'about mayo', and then mayo in the news) states that the new version does not use any MSFT software. Not quite the same thing as saying that it's written from scratch, and it's not from the horse's mouth, but there it is.

The codec should utilize MPEG-4v.2 video motion compressors or something of equal quality, source code available on this site.
If it's not only something similar in quality to MPEG-4 but uses MPEG-4 itself, what about all the patents? From earlier /. discussions I remember that there are quite a few... I think it's not in the interest of those who want to create an open codec that this codec will be 'illegal' like DivX ;-).

On a similar note, can anybody say what the guys at Project Mayo are doing? Sounds very mysterious, but the line Our members include the creators of DivX ;-) seems to make it a promising project.

It would be great to have a codec that is cross-platform, free, open-source, and performs well. And please don't put it into QuickTime -- I know that it's only a 'wrapper format' for all kinds of content, but I don't want to be forced to use that stupid QuickTime player anymore. Design the codec as a library in a way that you can make a QuickTime plugin from it if you want to. Give it a file extension of its own, so that all .xyz files will always play, everywhere! Create a small cross-platform player (maybe based on GTK) for people to download.

The DivX guys are working on a new, legal implementation of DivX over at www.ProjectMayo.com .

Looks like good things to come.