SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
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#2I don't understand why any standards body would consider not doing this as a default.
Re: SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
#3What the heck is SMPTE?
Re: SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
#4I don't understand why any standards body would consider not doing this as a default.
I don't think the benefits of charging for your work are mysterious. It's reasonable to believe that certain works should not be behind paywalls, but not understanding is kind of a confusing stance.
Re: SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
#5What the heck is SMPTE?
Re: SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
#6What the heck is SMPTE?
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
The SMPTE standards have been very important for cinematography and television, especially for professional applications.
Their importance has decreased since the transition to digital video, when many relevant standards have been issued by other organizations, but many SMPTE standards are still important, especially regarding the formats used for distributing digital movies for movie theaters.
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#7I don't understand why any standards body would consider not doing this as a default.
I don't think the benefits of charging for your work are mysterious. It's reasonable to believe that certain works should not be behind paywalls, but not understanding is kind of a confusing stance.
If your entire goal is to create a standard... it seems like giving anyone access to the materials needed to _adhere_ to said standard is prerequisite.
Unless the goal is not to create standards, but instead to control access to said standard.
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#8What the heck is SMPTE?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_...
Didn't realize they were so broad in scope. The only thing I had heard of was "SMPTE codes" used in audio recording to sync up multiple multi-track recording machines, so that e.g. you could record 30 tracks using two 16-track recorders (with one track on each machine used for the sync). I never bothered to look up what SMPTE meant.
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#9At last. It's time the whole would gets on board with open standards that are truly open, and there is explosive devopment going on in the world of new approaches to media production and distribution that this can only aid.
It's net-head vs. Bell-heads all over again, and one of the biggest reasons for the success of the IETF standards was the no-cost availability of all their standards.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think the benefits of charging for your work are mysterious. It's reasonable to believe that certain works should not be behind paywalls, but not understanding is kind of a confusing stance.
If your entire goal is to create a standard... it seems like giving anyone access to the materials needed to _adhere_ to said standard is prerequisite. Unless the goal is not to create standards, but instead to control access to said standard.
It’s a proprietary standard moving to an open standard