[opendtv] Re: IP-Based TV Will Revolutionize Entertainment

> Is this is a paid advertisement, because everyone and
> their brother is using XML for content management and
> description these days. I love how people have been
> doing this stuff for years, but when someone like Harris
> does it, 'that's news'.

Well, the news is that XML will (might? should?) be used
for IPTV, and evidently the news is also that something
like XML needed to be specified for IPTV at all, as far
as many at the NAB were concerned anyway.

This goes back to these comments:

> As we told the FCC back before 1995, they only needed
> to do two things.
>
> Choose a modulation standard and a transport stream
> standard. Everything else can be driven by the
> marketplace.
>
> The analogy to this is Ethernet and TCP/IP.

XML didn't exist in 1995, but something was needed
regardless.

Bert
 
 
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