[M4IF Discuss] Slashdot discussion of Salon article

[Kevin Marks]

On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 03:35 PM, Martin Jacklin wrote:
> I might add:
>
> I heard the news that the Advanced Video Coding (AVC) group in DVB are
> talking about integrating JVT, which they call "MPEG-4 v3" into "ETSI 
> TR 101
> 154" - their main MPEG implementation guidelines document. This was 
> said by
> Ken McCann of Zetacast (who is the chairman of that group) in Dublin on 
> the
> 7th March.
>
> MPEG-4 offers more stable periodic and more massive codec upgrades, and
> stays open and doesn't bundle stuff you don't need, like DRM and 
> proprietary
> codec revision cycles which you will later need to follow closely for 
> it to
> work. With MPEG-4 you can take what you want.

More than what? You didn't say what you are comparing too.
QT fits your description above better than MPEG4 does at the moment.
QT movies from 10 years ago still play in current QT, but newer codecs 
can be added and selectively downloaded. This is all shipping today.