It turns out that we were unfair in saying that Google might not be doing the heavy lifting for Google TV. Google has bought a company called On2 which produces a codec called the VP8 and open sourced the codec. At the same time they have defined a new open source format known as WebM.
Codec? A codec is pretty vital to everything you read about on this blog. A codec is what turns a video signal into a file (or a datastream). Another codec reverses the process to produce the video signal that you watch.
Apple and Microsoft back the patented H.264 codec. This codec supports the widely used MPEG4 video standard and you have to pay to use it (obviously the public pay indirectly). Not surprisingly Apple (the bad guys) do not competition for thier codec very much and are threatening to sue for infringement of thier patents.
So once again Google are opening up the medium to wider use. Clearly this paves the way for Google TV. We like Google. Some people are currently criticising Google for collecting un-encrypted wi-fi data. So you install a radio transmitter in your house that broadcasts your personal data around the neighbourhood, what do you expect? Turn encryption on you fool.
Saturday, 5 June 2010
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