Re: TV Glossary
From: Michael A. Dolan (miked@tbt.com)
Date: Wed, Sep 01 1999
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990901084414.00a44670@cts.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:44:14 -0700
To: www-tv@w3.org (WWW TV List)
From: "Michael A. Dolan" <miked@tbt.com>
Subject: Re: TV Glossary
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Rich, Kimmo, et al-
As I said earlier, my definitions do not match up with any one
organization, and I knew this discussion would happen anyway despite
my making that disclaimer.
The problem is that an [MPEG] "re-alignment" changes the meaning. A
Program in MPEG is not a Program in the Studio. So, what do we do
when someone from Disney Studios wants to re-align the [MPEG]
definitions to match their usage? Or someone from ATSC wants to use
"virtual channel" instead of the DVB "service", or, etc. Using this
pocess, we will *never* converge on definitions.
And, I really hesitate to invent a bunch of new terms that are
meaningless to everyone.
I wanted badly to defer to SMPTE EG28, but I found it is somewhat out
of date (1993) and didn't contain everything that was needed.
So, I'd like to propose the following "rules" for our Glossary:
1. We defer to SMPTE EG28 as the first authority.
2. If the term is not defined there, then use the MPEG definition
3. If the term is not defined there, only then we can debate it.
Is this acceptable to everyone?
[For those of you that don't have EG28, "Program" is undefined, so we
would use the MPEG definition as Kimmo has proposed ;-)]
Mike
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