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[Stig Venaas <>]

Frank Fulchiero wrote:
> I think the challenge and goal should be a system that is flexible
> enough to be used with hardware boxes, tuners, computer browsers, mobile
> browsers, software players, etc.

Yes

> Not sure why you could not have the best of all worlds.
> Besides the technical challenge of devising it, standardizing it, and
> getting the content owners to use it!

If done right, the channel reflector could work from hardware boxes,
tuners or whatever. It's just a matter of using HTTP instead of SAP to
retrieve the info. You may need some ways of quering just the relevant
data and some way to filter hits, but I don't see any reason why it
can't be done.

My dream is to be able to search lots of metadata to find interesting
content independently of (or not knowing) who is sending it etc. I think
the main problem with that though, is to get the content providers to
provide the metadata. I'm not impressed with the info people provide in
SAP.

Stig

> Cheers,
> Frank
> 
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Marc Manthey wrote:
> 
>>>> Not to diminish the importance of Hitoshi's work, but why should a
>>>> web browser be needed to watch a video?
>>>> Do you need to fire up a browser to watch television?
>>
>> i agree with you frank , but think about  millions of  little "mobile"
>> devices
>> there is sometimes not more then a "browser" , but  it could be "linked "
>> to a player for example.
>>
>>
>> /marc
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