I'm more talking about standardization, I mean lots of different manufacturers making "their" box support a common format. Right now we have this diverse collection of things that can kinda-sorta play the same formats but not really and certainly not in a way that any third party would want to support. The major issue with the ModSystems thing is it's one proprietary system that some manufacturers are kind of going with, but it's about as standard as HD-VMD, which similarly is a format where one manufacturer is doing most of the leg work including handling the publication of material.
MKV might be part of it. I'd like to see something like MKV + [MPEG4 Parts 2 and 10 and Ogg Dirac at 480/576/720/1080i/p/24/25/30/50/60] + [FLAC 5.1 and MP3 and DD5.1 and DTS] + HDCP become a defacto standard. If someone can add a kind of open source Advanced Content system to MKV (something easily implementable using components from Mozilla or Webkit), then you've got a format anyone can implement and that can do virtually everything HD DVD or Blu-ray could. Except the boxes will be dirt cheap, you'll be able to integrate everything from day one (HD DVD's promise but it didn't live long enough), and online download purchases will be possible also from day 1.
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I'm more talking about standardization, I mean lots of different manufacturers making "their" box support a common format. Right now we have this diverse collection of things that can kinda-sorta play the same formats but not really and certainly not in a way that any third party would want to support. The major issue with the ModSystems thing is it's one proprietary system that some manufacturers are kind of going with, but it's about as standard as HD-VMD, which similarly is a format where one manufacturer is doing most of the leg work including handling the publication of material.
MKV might be part of it. I'd like to see something like MKV + [MPEG4 Parts 2 and 10 and Ogg Dirac at 480/576/720/1080i/p/24/25/30/50/60] + [FLAC 5.1 and MP3 and DD5.1 and DTS] + HDCP become a defacto standard. If someone can add a kind of open source Advanced Content system to MKV (something easily implementable using components from Mozilla or Webkit), then you've got a format anyone can implement and that can do virtually everything HD DVD or Blu-ray could. Except the boxes will be dirt cheap, you'll be able to integrate everything from day one (HD DVD's promise but it didn't live long enough), and online download purchases will be possible also from day 1.
What we lack is a standard.