Daily question: DECE DOA
Tue, Sep 16, 08
…a bunch of media, entertainment and consumer electronics companies are working together on something called “Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem”, or DECE, which is a set of standards to develop a uniform media device ecosystem, the tenth such effort over the years. The details will apparently be announced at CES in Jan next year.
The group includes Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, News Corp’s Fox Entertainment Group, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lions Gate Entertainment, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Viacom’s Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign, and Time Warner’s Warner Bros. Guess the company everyone’s aiming for who isn’t in there…
- ABA = Anybody But Apple
- CSS = Content Scrambling System
- AACS = Advanced Access Content System
- DRM = Digital Rights Management
- DECE = Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
- PLOAP = Painting Lipstick On A Pig
If Microsoft’s PlaysForSure failed, why would DECE succeed?
Daily question: Best Buy buys Napster
Tue, Sep 16, 08
“This transaction offers Best Buy a recognized platform for enhancing our capabilities in the digital-media space and building new, recurring relationships with customers,” said Brian Dunn, president and chief executive of Best Buy. “Over time we hope to strengthen our offerings to consumers, who we believe will increasingly seek devices and solutions that enable them to access their content wherever, whenever and however they want.”
What part of “consumers haven’t exactly flocked to subscription-based music plans” does Best Buy not understand?
