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The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, a group of
media industry companies, wants to build a digital world in which video devices
and web sites join together in harmony. The new built world will also allow its
consumers to safely store their digital content and access it in every place in
the world.
The DECE owns a lot of Hollywood
studios, retailers, service providers and consumer electronics. The company now
works on a “uniform digital media experience” and its details will be shown in
January at the Consumer Electronics Show. The new project will allow its
consumers to copy content onto household playback devices and to burn their
content to physical media.
Mitch Singer, the President of the consortium said that his
company will appeal to interoperability of devices and websites. A virtual
library will be also created for the consumers’ digital video purchases to be
arraigned like an e-mail list and will work like a “rights locker.”
Also a logo will be placed on the products and websites.
This will show that the products use the DECE standards and are compatible with
the consortium. Singer told Reuters that they are creating a “specification
that services and device makers can license.” He added that the services and
device makers can use the logo “to associate their device, knowing that when
the consumer goes to buy the content, they know it will play."
Singer also said that the new digital world won’t look alike
the Apple ecosystem and added that they were encouraging Apple to join them and
develop something even bigger.
The DECE consortium includes Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy Co
Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, Comcast, News Corp's Fox Entertainment Group,
Hewlett-Packard Co, Intel, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, Microsoft Corp,
General Electric Co's NBC Universal, Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures, Philips,
Sony Corp, Toshiba, VeriSign, and Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros Entertainment.
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