Electronic gadget suppliers and subject material producers have
got to back away from the forest and see the light filtering
throught the trees. Individuals want to handle the content
they acquire and want to be ready to use their electronic
devices together devoid of restrictions placed on them.
Standards and interoperability will have to come to digital
devices, just as Google co-founder Larry Page said in his
Client Electronics Show keynote speech when he introduced
Google Video. Correct now, only these video's purchased by way of
Google Video that are NOT copy protected will play on video
iPods and Sony PSP's - the rest only perform on Google Video.
http://www.google.com/press/podium/ces2006.html
That news about Google Video and Digital Rights Management
(DRM) requirements of interoperability had me fuming about my
inability to use my subject material (photos, motion pictures, music) on
devices produced by different manufacturers or in between cell cellphone
providers. Right now I ran across a story about an Anti-DRM group
in Britain campaigning to demand an finish to DRM.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/18/drm_consumer_opposition/
Certainly I'm not the only one disturbed by the reality that I
cannot move digitally recorded movies from my Tivo to my DVD
recorder (purchased for specifically that purpose, but ahead of I
knew it wouldn't perform) I only found out that I couldn't
record movies from the Tivo to the DVD recorder when I called
Pioneer consumer support to inquire why the recorder wouldn't
record my movies. It seems that I can only move digital
motion pictures from the Tivo to my laptop or computer (which I located I could do
with cost-free Tivo Desktop software package when I called Tivo buyer
help.)
So instead of recording immediately from my Tivo to my Pioneer
DVD recorder, I have to move the film above to my laptop or computer
via Tivo Desktop application, then burn a DVD from my personal computer.
Very smart move on Tivo's element, as it signifies I definitely
won't get the DVR from my satellite Tv provider due to the fact they
don't assistance skipping commercials, nor do they assistance
moving films to my laptop.
This also suggests I don't Need my Pioneer DVD recorder - so
their DRM which stops Tivo digitally recorded motion pictures from
recording to DVD implies that I won't use that Pioneer DVD
recorder and will now sell it. The other DVD player linked
to my other tv will suffice. If I want to record
anything, it goes on the Tivo since it is so effortless to use
and operates so very very well. I'll use the totally free Tivo Desktop
software and move it to my laptop and burn DVD's of my
recorded television and motion pictures there.
Clearly Tivo is performing all they can to make their device
customer friendly - but they are staying besieged by television
and film material producers, who are screaming at them to
quit the "piracy" of their customers. Tivo now disables the 30
2nd commercial skip button daily (which you have to know
how to program - Pick, Play, Select, 3-, Pick). They do
this by way of immediately updated internal software program simply because
advertisers screamed at them for a number of years about the
consumer ability to skip commercials. The outcome is that I
reprogram that function everyday anyway - annoying, but not
nearly as annoying as not getting capable to control my personal device
the way I want to.
I'm convinced that content material producers will lose this battle
more than the extended expression and I'll do all I can to fight them
myself, like supporting anti-DRM groups wherever I uncover them.
And I'll research far more completely in advance of buying products
which contain DRM to make specified they will operate with my
present devices - meaning no Sony CD's or DVD's. There have
been rumors that Apple is generating a set-top box and service
related to Tivo and I'd buy 1 in a split second as I'm certain
I could use my iPod, iMac and iPhoto seamlessly in between all
devices.
Perhaps they'll make a telephone with a Mac OS and a PDA as well (I
in fact employed to very own an early Apple Newton PDA and oh, how I
wish they had continued to build that wonderful little
issue). I'm pleased to use anything Apple produces - but I
won't switch cell companies or switch my Satellite Television
provider. Interoperability and specifications are important to me.
It's about alternative. Pioneer restricted my selections and lost a
customer and Motorola lost my ROKR iTunes phone enterprise
simply because the device is only available from Cingular.
Definitely, I'm a Mac user and had studiously averted
buying Windows machines until finally I had to acquire a Windows box
to run business application not available for my Apple machines.
So I purchased an very inexpensive $299 Computer to run the three
applications that won't run on my Mac. That low-cost machine now
serves as my DVD burner for movies (with a cheap external
tricky drive as film storage drive). Pioneer lost a client
simply because they do not let me to record motion pictures to DVD from my
Tivo. How about a Tivo/Apple partnership? That would be a
marriage made in heaven due to the customer-centric design and style
and usability so elegantly addressed by the two firms.
I'll put up with Apple's walled garden (iTunes and
proprietary AAC files) and their personal DRM only as extended as
every thing they make operates seamlessly collectively. Apple
items often have worked elegantly collectively and almost certainly
constantly will. Somehow most third celebration software package appears to
interact properly with everything else on the Macs. The second
Motorola tends to make that ROKR iTunes phone offered as a result of MY
cellular provider, I'll contemplate getting that phone.
Currently being in the industry for a telephone, I had been hunting at a Palm
Treo 650 telephone/PDA and was excited when they introduced the
new 700 model, just as I was about to make that acquire. So
I study a few evaluations and discovered to my horror that Palm
just fell victim to the dominance of Microsoft and replaced
their very own very well made Palm operating system on that new
Treo 700 with a buggy, slow and cumbersome Windows OS!
In the course of action they lost a different client, due to the fact I can't
stand the clunky way one should navigate with Windows
(reviewers agree) and refuse to get that machine now, the
exact same way I avoided all other PDA's running Windows for the
past 10 many years. This is all since Palm couldn't port
Microsoft documents and Windows related bits to the Palm OS
when corporate customers expected that interoperability. Thanks
to Gates & Organization, Palm lost a different client - and their
very own stylish OS.
If mainstream electronics device suppliers continue to
take the path of least resistance by kowtowing to content
producers, lowest widespread denominator software and stifled
functionality and interoperability, then shoppers will
sooner or later come across a way to take back the control. We'll steer clear of
getting goods (CD's & DVD's, "rented" music) that don't
get the job done with their current devices (Tivo's, DVD recorders,
PDA's, iPods) and will discover organizations that make all of this
stuff operate collectively and buy from them - but only so lengthy as
ALL devices and ALL content operate with each other
interchangeably.
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