For all intents and purposes, it is "Microsoft's iHD". They invented it, and attached Disney to it to try to give it some credibility. Disney doesn't even support HD-DVD, how much iHD work do you think they are doing? Microsoft created iHD pure-and-simple to prevent Java from building on it's standard position for cable TV (as part of OCAP, which will become a standard part of your set-top box and eventually TV over the next few years). MS has spent literally billions of dollars since the late 90's attempting to own the living room, and has precious little to show for it. iHD is just their latest failed attempt to force the industry to bow to their proprietary standards.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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For all intents and purposes, it is "Microsoft's iHD". They invented it, and attached Disney to it to try to give it some credibility. Disney doesn't even support HD-DVD, how much iHD work do you think they are doing? Microsoft created iHD pure-and-simple to prevent Java from building on it's standard position for cable TV (as part of OCAP, which will become a standard part of your set-top box and eventually TV over the next few years). MS has spent literally billions of dollars since the late 90's attempting to own the living room, and has precious little to show for it. iHD is just their latest failed attempt to force the industry to bow to their proprietary standards.