Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix today announced that they have formed a new open source alliance — the Alliance for Open Media — with the goal of developing the next generation of royalty-free video formats, codecs and other related technologies.
Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix today announced that they have formed a new open source alliance — the Alliance for Open Media — with the goal of developing the next generation of royalty-free video formats, codecs and other related technologies.
Then again, the recent addition of Fox and Panasonic (which prides itself on its TVs' focus on delivering pictures as the director intended) to the new HDR10+ Alliance certainly bolsters the format's credentials from a content accuracy perspective.
Walgreens Boots Alliance will unveil a new format in pilot stores over the coming months that will bring together retail, healthcare and other services currently offered separately in some stores.
I covered the announcement that Samsung, Panasonic and Fox were launching a new alliance to back a relatively new HDR10+ format ahead of IFA opening its doors last week.
NATO is quite satisfied with the format of partnerships the alliance is developing.
Both have decided to ditch the Blu-ray standard from the Sony camp and release all their future high-definition titles solely in the HD DVD format from the Toshiba alliance.
I realize that Univision is challenged to attract the younger Hispanic demographic to their traditional Spanish language format, but this potential alliance with Disney can be a game changer that will awaken all media groups to do the same.
Titles on the rival HD DVD format, developed by the Toshiba alliance, will still be available at Blockbuster's original 250 locations as well as online.
Kinokuniya and Microsoft announced an alliance in which the Japanese bookseller will open an online store that uses Microsoft's technology for the secure distribution of electronic books in Microsoft's Reader format.
RealNetworks Pursues Alliance With Apple.
