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EPGs: the proprietary debate
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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 22637" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>Ah, but DTT, unlike satellite broadcast, is necessarily limited to a given region. UK DT transmissions can not be picked up elsewhere. So it could be argued that each country developing its own standards will have no effect on the market. </p><p></p><p>Within any given country it would obviously be ideal to adopt open standards as that would allow home competition to flourish. But even then, it's not necessarily a problem if a proprietary standard becomes established - so long as it is available to others (albeit under licence). What you need to avoid is locking customers in to one particular supplier or manufacturer. Precedents include the CD. Philips patented it and until recently received royalties for every CD made, but did not attempt to control the nature or supply of devices that used them, let alone the content. As a result, it doesn't feel like a proprietary standard - but it is.</p><p></p><p>The problems we have seen with the satellite industry (Sky, Canal+...) stem from attempts by those companies to control as much as possible of the technology and supply chain. If NDS would licence its Videoguard system in CI form, then many of those problems in the UK market would be solved. </p><p></p><p>Likewise, if Canal+ had marketed their own Mediaguard CAM instead of fighting with Aston and refusing to officially recognise or support anyone using a generic receiver with an Astoncrypt CAM, then there too many problems would have been solved. </p><p></p><p>It is not necessarily the use of proprietary standards that leads to problems, but the behaviour of the companies as they try to use those standards to help create what amount to monopolies.</p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 22637, member: 174998"] Ah, but DTT, unlike satellite broadcast, is necessarily limited to a given region. UK DT transmissions can not be picked up elsewhere. So it could be argued that each country developing its own standards will have no effect on the market. Within any given country it would obviously be ideal to adopt open standards as that would allow home competition to flourish. But even then, it's not necessarily a problem if a proprietary standard becomes established - so long as it is available to others (albeit under licence). What you need to avoid is locking customers in to one particular supplier or manufacturer. Precedents include the CD. Philips patented it and until recently received royalties for every CD made, but did not attempt to control the nature or supply of devices that used them, let alone the content. As a result, it doesn't feel like a proprietary standard - but it is. The problems we have seen with the satellite industry (Sky, Canal+...) stem from attempts by those companies to control as much as possible of the technology and supply chain. If NDS would licence its Videoguard system in CI form, then many of those problems in the UK market would be solved. Likewise, if Canal+ had marketed their own Mediaguard CAM instead of fighting with Aston and refusing to officially recognise or support anyone using a generic receiver with an Astoncrypt CAM, then there too many problems would have been solved. It is not necessarily the use of proprietary standards that leads to problems, but the behaviour of the companies as they try to use those standards to help create what amount to monopolies. 2old [/QUOTE]
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