I believe that VOD is something that is being pushed down the throats of consumers weather we like it or not, being that it is heavily backed by all the major media corporations.
If a broadband mediums such as Powerlines, or fiber optics due come in to being within the next 10 years then you'll definitely see a push for more "Pay per view" content from those investing corporations. True, pay per view has only seen moderate success...which could be due to lack of extensive video catalog available and lack of true "VOD"...
Sony, Warner, Disney etc...will be able to create interactive channels with a potentially massive catalog for viewers to "stream/download" which will of course enforce DMCA/encryption on the users. Knowing this, the question one weather it will be propriety or open is a given.
However, I do believe that if more users/website designers support open source standards by simply encoding their video files using open source standards like Theora/VP3 then a need for plug-in and native support will arise for major media software (mediaplayer,real,quicktime etc) as they fight to gain more users to dominate the desktop and the website.
With the consolidation of media conglomerates (AOL Warner, FOX, Sony, Viacomm etc), the consolidation of proprietary technology mediums including hardware (see Microsoft palladium), and the rising power of DMCA the future looks bleak for the independent broadcaster and content creators.
As the same case with the state of Mp3's on linux where software companies get charged to release encoding capabilities, you can bet your bottom dollar that microsoft and others will most definitely charge for encoding into their proprietary digital video formats. This of course will further enhance the DMCA influence on what can be encoded and what can't.
With the RIAA pressing on the bill to get independent radio broadcasters pay airplay royalties all the way back to 1998. Can this be further enforced with the use of consolidated property media technology and corprate controlled media? Given the current stance of the corporates with DMCA, they will conviently reinvent the Television from a once open, free, and independent friendly internet.
Uh...North America has had CDMA for years, and CDMA was first deployed in North America you retard.
Dude,cool off your underoos and drink some koolaid. I think he's referring to the W-CDMA implementation known as FOMA which is 3g Compliant(which has been in service for about a year now).
The "CDMA" your referring to is IS-95, and is now being upgraded to 1xrtt..but lets face it, sending pictures is not the same as video streaming. With GPRS and 1xrtt running (in real world situations)30-40kb/s and 50 to 60 kb/s (on good days), The US has along way to go before it has 3g compliant CDMA2000 and W-CDMA up and running.
A lot of this has to do with political drudgery of Spectrum use here in the US, with the FCC, Military, and the Congress limiting how much spectrum can be used and for what.
And by the way an implantations of Qualcomm's system (proudly designed in the USA) 3g compliant CDMA2000 is also running in multiple cities in Japan as we speak. So Japan has not only one but,TWO 3g networks using different standards. This guy claiming that the US will surpass Europe and Japan really needs to get a clue.
-Jason
Actually, the nforce2 chipset itself would be ideal for gamers, media/graphic designers etc..because of the fact that nvidia produces a superior memory bus controller. While it is true that SiS and VIA are playing catch up in the Dual channel DDR field, who was the first to provide this? Furthermore, who was the first to provide the 128bit DDR interface?
On the contrary, Nvidia does invest into such "bleeding" technology with it's DualDDR R&D(giving intel based 1066RAMBUS chipsets a run for their money). On The Athlon side of things this is the best chipset at present when it comes to memory bandwidth and speed.
To covers basic(bleeding edge) facts:
1. nforce2 platform will support 8x agp
2. The system platform Processor(SPP Northbridge) version will not have integrated graphics
3. Otherwise the mobos will have integrated geforce4 mx running at 250MHz (similar to geforce4 mx 420) using the IGP northbridge.
4. slapping in some sticks of the PC3200 ram in a nforce DDR400 board, in combination the latest Athlon XP's, will allow an intel spanking 6.4/gb per sec bandwidth for that Athlon over clocking a$$.
5. nvidia was one of the first to support standards such as AMD's Hypertransport. The MCP(Southbridge) is connected to the IGP/SPP northbridge using a Hypertransport link.
6. Nforce2 processors are in production NOW
"Teamed with the fastest Athlon XP processors to date, nForce2 and Athlon XP is dollar-for-dollar the best gaming platform on the market, and we look forward to building blazing fast systems around these innovative and impressive technologies."Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest.
"NVIDIA's new nForce2 AMD AthlonXP-based platforms with advanced 333FSB support outperforms any platform available in the market today," said Oskar Wu, Head AMD Board Designer at ABIT
-Jason
When apple had their chips down in late 95 -early 96 they opened their hardware to 3rd party venders to entice more users to the mac platform...and it was working but unfortunately for Apple they were still having financial problems and could not keep up pace with some 3rd party vendors. Then comes Steve Jobs/Next Inc and Apple kills the universal mac CHRP standard that originally Apple created and all the 3rd parties wanted to follow.
Depending on your point of few this could have been for better or worse...in the short term it helped apple regain their market share in hardware sells. However, CHRP might just be the ghost that haunts apple in the long term if apple can't keep up with the rest of the industry hardware wise.
Who knows if CHRP did survive maybe half of us on slashdot could be raving about linux ppc, net bsd, Be OS and the new Mac OS X..on our Apples macs and mac clones...
Oh well.
Could a new open CHRP standard ever exist as an alternative to going with x86?
Time will tell.
1. Because yahoo embraced and still embraces the web as it is meant to be.....accessible by anyone with a computer/devices and a connection. (even supporting text based lynx browsers;)..)
2. Because yahoo expanded on its services while maintaining the familiarity of its simplistic interface.
3. Because yahoo established its name and presence on the web at the right time, using the right fundamentals/ideas, while gaining the right investors.
I could easily dull u with a lonnng analysis on how they invested, implemented, and expanded their services..no need to...We all know their story.
I've grown older with yahoo over the years...while sometimes i loved and hated it. I've been using it on a daily basis for years...and It ultimately served my needs very well.. in which search, communication and portable services are crucial since i access the web in different locations and on different operating systems/platforms frequently. From personal stock quotes... to bookmarks, to maintaining a buddy list that i can access anywhere through instant messaging using java.
Granted that they completely ripped off or bought out some ideas from other services..and may not offer the best incarnations of those services. But, what it has is the established centralization in which the others do not and never will. For better or for worse, I won't be surprised if they get really big in the media distribution market via broadcast.com streaming movies, music videos, maybe buying out a site like launch.com......or a portable "personal" mp3 streaming service such as myplay.com..only time will tell.
I won't praise them as the greatest major "dotcom" ever...but they're good and still stayed true to their fundamentals while expanding. And with rapid advancement of the web via flash, media distribution etc..It's kind of a relief to see the familiarity of their simplistic interface....after all these years.
--By the way yahoo has around $1.62 billion USD in cash reserves, has no major debts, still making profit, while maintaining and expanding a huge market capitalization.....
Yahoo is going to be around for a long time folk...
Do you really mean to tell me that IS-136..with it's 8kb audio Codec,as opposed to GSM with 13kb codec, is better?? I don't know about you but I actually do want to here what the person on the phone is telling me clearly.
a) you can run IS-136 on the US 800 MHz band and not GSM, thanks to the latter's screw-the-US design
GSM 1900 pretty much screws the US design...i guess Sprint does the same for choosing 1900..
b) they're both obsolete,
Uhmm Hold on just one second..I need to call a friend on my obsolete GSM phone..and pass this major news update on to the other 500 million GSM users worldwide...
However, for the benefit of your clueless, cnn informed, ignorance..you should study the GSM interface structure..and if you did, you would learn that GSM is only an air interface on top of TDMA..which TDMA can be replaced with CDMA..more like W-cdma...as what UMTS is doing. Obsolete?? hmmmmmmm....
So THe UMTS group pick a frequency that is more suited to the european spectrum for Europe...not for UMTS worldwide. You are correct, they lowered the Frequency to suit the FCC needs and the military... To work within this country...and with it laws. Yeah really petty..
At&T, VoicesTream, Microcell/Fido..has performed test with UMTS in the US and Canada..doesn't sound like they plan on leaving the US out nor do they plan to get left out. Qualcomm got left out because the wanted more influence on the technology UMTS was using...hence wanted more use of their proprietary technology. Alas Qaulcom chose to go to their corner and use the pointless CDMA 2000...
It's ok man. How about you roam the U. S. of A...while I go roam the world...from Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, Calcutta..New York LA..and Norman, OK....and tell you how it's working for me.
My point?? When something is more Universal and hasworldwide mass appeal..And a bright future a head...The US needs to catch on to this..otherwise yes it will get left behind... Then u tell me what is obsolete and what's not, when the world uses a universal technology and you don't...
Note, if you actually do the math..go to GSM World...look at the members and how many "out siders" have been joining (see Brazil), compared to the one and only Qualcomm and then you can come back and tell me whose really closed.
This article states that AT&T will actually deploy GSM overlaying the existing Network "IS-136", since both technologies use TDMA..it is possible to "upgrade" the existing network to the GSM interface...
Also, for those of you claiming that UTMS will support IS-95(Qualcomms version of CDMA Heavily supported in the US by Sprint, Verizon, the US government etc), There's is no confirmation that UTMS will support IS-95 period...it will However use a more broad version of CDMA...called Wideband CDMA..which supports Spread spectrum technology, but at a far faster rate..and then you'll see some real multimedia, far better than what WAP or I-mode have to offer..
As for Qualcomm's quest for world domination i.e. charging Licensing fees just for use IS-95 a.k.a "cdma" interface is over..They lost major deals in China that could have helped them a lot. GSM won big over there. Qualcomm dropped the ball and Both factions of the so called 3G have yet to agree on a a true universal standard putting Qualcomm's closed,"proudly made in the U.S of A " proprietary interface...to bleak and dark future..
However, don't give up hope yet.. Some of the finest US centric Congressmen and Senators...have a large stake in Qualcomm and are lobbied heavily...since IS-95 was actually developed by the U.S. Military...It's in the US "interest" to support a US centric technology for world Domination. Why is the Duetch Telekom buy out of voicestream being heavily opposed by the countries' finest?? Is it because of Germany's near 50% stake in the company? No, Germany has proposed to sell ALL of it's stake in the company. So then what are the real US "interest" that these congressmen are fighting for? They're ASSets..it's all about the Benjamins baby!!
Anyhow the rest of the world isn't buying into it...and wants to support a true universal standard.. and that is GSM, and later UMTS. Congratulations, AT&T for just now realizing this...It's about time.
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Dido for me too i've been waiting for the scph-50000 version myself...but i'm going crazy waiting ..can't ...wait....any..more...must ..buy. ;)
I believe that VOD is something that is being pushed down the throats of consumers weather we like it or not, being that it is heavily backed by all the major media corporations.
If a broadband mediums such as Powerlines, or fiber optics due come in to being within the next 10 years then you'll definitely see a push for more "Pay per view" content from those investing corporations. True, pay per view has only seen moderate success...which could be due to lack of extensive video catalog available and lack of true "VOD"...
Sony, Warner, Disney etc...will be able to create interactive channels with a potentially massive catalog for viewers to "stream/download" which will of course enforce DMCA/encryption on the users. Knowing this, the question one weather it will be propriety or open is a given.
However, I do believe that if more users/website designers support open source standards by simply encoding their video files using open source standards like Theora/VP3 then a need for plug-in and native support will arise for major media software (mediaplayer,real,quicktime etc) as they fight to gain more users to dominate the desktop and the website.
With the consolidation of media conglomerates (AOL Warner, FOX, Sony, Viacomm etc), the consolidation of proprietary technology mediums including hardware (see Microsoft palladium), and the rising power of DMCA the future looks bleak for the independent broadcaster and content creators.
As the same case with the state of Mp3's on linux where software companies get charged to release encoding capabilities, you can bet your bottom dollar that microsoft and others will most definitely charge for encoding into their proprietary digital video formats. This of course will further enhance the DMCA influence on what can be encoded and what can't.
With the RIAA pressing on the bill to get independent radio broadcasters pay airplay royalties all the way back to 1998. Can this be further enforced with the use of consolidated property media technology and corprate controlled media? Given the current stance of the corporates with DMCA, they will conviently reinvent the Television from a once open, free, and independent friendly internet.
Jason
Dude,cool off your underoos and drink some koolaid. I think he's referring to the W-CDMA implementation known as FOMA which is 3g Compliant(which has been in service for about a year now).
The "CDMA" your referring to is IS-95, and is now being upgraded to 1xrtt..but lets face it, sending pictures is not the same as video streaming. With GPRS and 1xrtt running (in real world situations)30-40kb/s and 50 to 60 kb/s (on good days), The US has along way to go before it has 3g compliant CDMA2000 and W-CDMA up and running.
A lot of this has to do with political drudgery of Spectrum use here in the US, with the FCC, Military, and the Congress limiting how much spectrum can be used and for what.
And by the way an implantations of Qualcomm's system (proudly designed in the USA) 3g compliant CDMA2000 is also running in multiple cities in Japan as we speak. So Japan has not only one but ,TWO 3g networks using different standards. This guy claiming that the US will surpass Europe and Japan really needs to get a clue.
-Jason
Actually, the nforce2 chipset itself would be ideal for gamers, media/graphic designers etc..because of the fact that nvidia produces a superior memory bus controller. While it is true that SiS and VIA are playing catch up in the Dual channel DDR field, who was the first to provide this? Furthermore, who was the first to provide the 128bit DDR interface?
On the contrary, Nvidia does invest into such "bleeding" technology with it's DualDDR R&D(giving intel based 1066RAMBUS chipsets a run for their money). On The Athlon side of things this is the best chipset at present when it comes to memory bandwidth and speed.
To covers basic(bleeding edge) facts:
1. nforce2 platform will support 8x agp
2. The system platform Processor(SPP Northbridge) version will not have integrated graphics
3. Otherwise the mobos will have integrated geforce4 mx running at 250MHz (similar to geforce4 mx 420) using the IGP northbridge.
4. slapping in some sticks of the PC3200 ram in a nforce DDR400 board, in combination the latest Athlon XP's, will allow an intel spanking 6.4/gb per sec bandwidth for that Athlon over clocking a$$.
5. nvidia was one of the first to support standards such as AMD's Hypertransport. The MCP(Southbridge) is connected to the IGP/SPP northbridge using a Hypertransport link.
6. Nforce2 processors are in production NOW
NVIDIA nForce2 Engineered to Deliver Outstanding Performance for AMD Athlon CPUs
"Teamed with the fastest Athlon XP processors to date, nForce2 and Athlon XP is dollar-for-dollar the best gaming platform on the market, and we look forward to building blazing fast systems around these innovative and impressive technologies."Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest.
"NVIDIA's new nForce2 AMD AthlonXP-based platforms with advanced 333FSB support outperforms any platform available in the market today," said Oskar Wu, Head AMD Board Designer at ABIT
-Jason
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When apple had their chips down in late 95 -early 96 they opened their hardware to 3rd party venders to entice more users to the mac platform...and it was working but unfortunately for Apple they were still having financial problems and could not keep up pace with some 3rd party vendors. Then comes Steve Jobs/Next Inc and Apple kills the universal mac CHRP standard that originally Apple created and all the 3rd parties wanted to follow.
Depending on your point of few this could have been for better or worse...in the short term it helped apple regain their market share in hardware sells. However, CHRP might just be the ghost that haunts apple in the long term if apple can't keep up with the rest of the industry hardware wise.
Who knows if CHRP did survive maybe half of us on slashdot could be raving about linux ppc, net bsd, Be OS and the new Mac OS X..on our Apples macs and mac clones...
Oh well.
Could a new open CHRP standard ever exist as an alternative to going with x86?
Time will tell.
1. Because yahoo embraced and still embraces the web as it is meant to be.....accessible by anyone with a computer/devices and a connection. (even supporting text based lynx browsers ;)..)
..no need to...We all know their story.
..and may not offer the best incarnations of those services. But, what it has is the established centralization in which the others do not and never will. For better or for worse, I won't be surprised if they get really big in the media distribution market via broadcast.com streaming movies, music videos, maybe buying out a site like launch.com......or a portable "personal" mp3 streaming service such as myplay.com..only time will tell.
...but they're good and still stayed true to their fundamentals while expanding. And with rapid advancement of the web via flash, media distribution etc..It's kind of a relief to see the familiarity of their simplistic interface ....after all these years.
2. Because yahoo expanded on its services while maintaining the familiarity of its simplistic interface.
3. Because yahoo established its name and presence on the web at the right time, using the right fundamentals/ideas, while gaining the right investors.
I could easily dull u with a lonnng analysis on how they invested, implemented, and expanded their services
I've grown older with yahoo over the years...while sometimes i loved and hated it. I've been using it on a daily basis for years...and It ultimately served my needs very well.. in which search, communication and portable services are crucial since i access the web in different locations and on different operating systems/platforms frequently. From personal stock quotes... to bookmarks, to maintaining a buddy list that i can access anywhere through instant messaging using java.
Granted that they completely ripped off or bought out some ideas from other services
I won't praise them as the greatest major "dotcom" ever
--By the way yahoo has around $1.62 billion USD in cash reserves, has no major debts, still making profit, while maintaining and expanding a huge market capitalization.....
Yahoo is going to be around for a long time folk...
Typical Clueless US centric trash
..with it's 8kb audio Codec ,as opposed to GSM with 13kb codec, is better?? I don't know about you but I actually do want to here what the person on the phone is telling me clearly.
..and pass this major news update on to the other 500 million GSM users worldwide...
However, for the benefit of your clueless, cnn informed, ignorance ..you should study the GSM interface structure..and if you did, you would learn that GSM is only an air interface on top of TDMA..which TDMA can be replaced with CDMA..more like W-cdma...as what UMTS is doing. Obsolete?? hmmmmmmm....
..
...hence wanted more use of their proprietary technology. Alas Qaulcom chose to go to their corner and use the pointless CDMA 2000...
...from Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, Calcutta..New York LA..and Norman, OK....and tell you how it's working for me.
My point?? When something is more Universal and hasworldwide mass appeal..And a bright future a head...The US needs to catch on to this ..otherwise yes it will get left behind... Then u tell me what is obsolete and what's not, when the world uses a universal technology and you don't...
..go to GSM World ...look at the members and how many "out siders" have been joining (see Brazil), compared to the one and only Qualcomm and then you can come back and tell me whose really closed.
Do you really mean to tell me that IS-136
a) you can run IS-136 on the US 800 MHz band and not GSM, thanks to the latter's screw-the-US design
GSM 1900 pretty much screws the US design...i guess Sprint does the same for choosing 1900..
b) they're both obsolete,
Uhmm Hold on just one second..I need to call a friend on my obsolete GSM phone
So THe UMTS group pick a frequency that is more suited to the european spectrum for Europe...not for UMTS worldwide. You are correct, they lowered the Frequency to suit the FCC needs and the military... To work within this country...and with it laws. Yeah really petty
At&T, VoicesTream, Microcell/Fido..has performed test with UMTS in the US and Canada..doesn't sound like they plan on leaving the US out nor do they plan to get left out. Qualcomm got left out because the wanted more influence on the technology UMTS was using
It's ok man. How about you roam the U. S. of A...while I go roam the world
Note, if you actually do the math
from At&T themselves...
..it's all about the Benjamins baby!!
.. and that is GSM, and later UMTS. Congratulations, AT&T for just now realizing this...It's about time.
More Info
This article states that AT&T will actually deploy GSM overlaying the existing Network "IS-136", since both technologies use TDMA..it is possible to "upgrade" the existing network to the GSM interface...
Also, for those of you claiming that UTMS will support IS-95(Qualcomms version of CDMA Heavily supported in the US by Sprint, Verizon, the US government etc), There's is no confirmation that UTMS will support IS-95 period...it will However use a more broad version of CDMA...called Wideband CDMA..which supports Spread spectrum technology, but at a far faster rate..and then you'll see some real multimedia, far better than what WAP or I-mode have to offer..
As for Qualcomm's quest for world domination i.e. charging Licensing fees just for use IS-95 a.k.a "cdma" interface is over..They lost major deals in China that could have helped them a lot. GSM won big over there. Qualcomm dropped the ball and Both factions of the so called 3G have yet to agree on a a true universal standard putting Qualcomm's closed,"proudly made in the U.S of A " proprietary interface...to bleak and dark future..
However, don't give up hope yet.. Some of the finest US centric Congressmen and Senators...have a large stake in Qualcomm and are lobbied heavily...since IS-95 was actually developed by the U.S. Military...It's in the US "interest" to support a US centric technology for world Domination. Why is the Duetch Telekom buy out of voicestream being heavily opposed by the countries' finest?? Is it because of Germany's near 50% stake in the company? No, Germany has proposed to sell ALL of it's stake in the company. So then what are the real US "interest" that these congressmen are fighting for? They're ASSets
Anyhow the rest of the world isn't buying into it...and wants to support a true universal standard
Peace..