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You'll never beat the warmth of phonovision discs.

Not really. Edison was able to play his recordings, which this Frenchman apparently wasn't able to do.

Not unlike John Logie Baird, the Scotsman who invented television before Zworkin or Farnsworth. He invented video recording, but was never able to play his recordings back. But recently these recordings have been digitized and the time base has been corrected, and video is there.

The 4-frame-per-second video recordings were made on 78-RPM lacquers by John Logie Baird in 1927 and 1928. Don McLean performed the restoration.

Sure, he was recording video, but he wasn't doing much of playing it back.

Too bad they don't sell video content on records.

Ah, but monsieur. you are mistaken!
http://www.tvdawn.com/recordng.htm

The first TV recordings were made on recording discs, and played back by putting the microphone of the "Baird Televisor" close to the speaker of the gramophone.
And, oh, yeah, vinyl rocks :P

The point is that FOSS will never be legally allowed to play these *standard* media discs, ever.

Uh, patents expire after about 20 years. That's even before the Unix clock rolls over in 2038.

Now that this standard is out that mandates Microsoft codecs, it can *never* be undone,

Never is a long time. Patents expire, formats fall out of favor (cylindrical records, 8-track, 30-line video recording, Betamax, reel-to-reel audio, 45 RPM and LP vinyl records, CED videodisc, DIVX, etc. All once media for publishing prerecorded entertainment, now rare.) It isn't so much that the standard is undone as it, and its media, is superceded.

I think the grand-parent has a valid point. You can't call a set of still images a movie just because they can be put together and made into a movie. Intention of creation plays an important role

It's an interesting point - is it the person who originally had te idea, or the person who first successfully made it work. For instance, John Logie Baird actually made the very first video recordings, decades before anyone else managed it. But he wasn't able to play them back because he didn't have a way to syncronize the recorded signal to his display device. Is half of an invention enough?