A consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers and content creators who are pushing for more interoperability between content platforms have updated the 'standards' which consortium members are attempting to stick to. The updates seem to relate to technology that allows consumers to transfer content between different devices.
In a statement issue last week, the Coral Consortium said: "This release will allow device makers and service providers to give consumers the power to easily locate and play content on all of their devices, without having to grapple with technical details like different device DRMs and media formats".
Coral also announced that America Online, Cisco Systems, Comcast, Gibson Guitar, LG Electronics, Motorola, the Motion Picture Association of America, SecureMedia, and Verimatrix have all signed up to the consortium, which already boasts HP, Intertrust, Philips, Matsushita (Panasonic), Samsung, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, the IFPI and NBC Universal in its membership.
Such industry wide support for the standards shows a wide recognition that interoperability is key to the future success of digital media, though some wonder if, as the consortium grows in size, internal politics will force the organisation to collapse.