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OSTA Announces MultiPhoto/Video Specification
krazyninja writes "The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA), and the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), have announced the release of v1.0 MultiPhoto/Video specs. This specifies a standard framework for storing and managing digital image content on CDs/DVDs. Companies such as HP and Roxio are involved in this development. Note that there is a similar spec for audio called MultiAudio, also from OSTA."
yah well , i womder if they gonna try 2 come out with some anti-piracy scheme for it as well...
or that would be the headache of the recording companies or whoever employ this technology
something needs to be..
My mother, gave my sister, the family foto album.. now I have it, and I'm in the process of digitizing it...
all of my kids, will have copies (albeit digital) and with video clips, and with audio snippets... and their children (presumably) will, and so on.. how about a standard, that saves these scrapbooks, so they can be merged easily..
Fictionalized example- I use kodaks 'scraps' program, and give my son a 500 gig optical disk with everything.. he meets and marries in due time a woman who's family chose to use polaroids 'memories' they buy one or the other, and just 'merge' the memories.. they can hand each child a copy issued custom to them.. with added material.. (lables for photos now say great grandparent in stead of grandparent, et'cetera..)
of course, it has to be open format, something that allows new technologies to add gracefully (a hologram or other 3-d memory)
What kind of DRM nasties are in this? And what are the odds that this new format will run only on CD/DVD players powered by Windows Media and Windows XP for Home Appliances Edition? They will copy protect your own photos for you, just in case you might happen to take a picture of a copy protected work somewhere. You wont be sending those photos off to your brother or sister unless you pay your monthly $19.95 Multiphoto Subscriber Plus+ license (but it works with broadband and AOL!).
I smell trouble. I smell lots of trouble. Whenever companies like HP and Roxio get involved, I am concerned for the well being of embedded, appliance-like devices.
Distopian future? Absolutely. Soon we wont be able to print our own photos without a watermark of the printers manufacturer. Free advertising! And it will be against DMCA to remove the watermarks! What a joyus future indeed!
Why not just use UDF packet-written CDs? What advantage does this new, properietary, probably DRMed format have over good ol' UDF with a load of .jpeg and .mpeg files?
P.S. I wish Linux UDF-write support worked - then I could start using CDs as giant floppies...