Digi living room has many occupants

March 28, 2008 With the goal of building the "digital living room," an epic battle pitting computer hardware and software makers against consumer electronics companies is being fought. Frankel says it "mixes physical media such as CDs and DVDs with personal digital media," streamed or downloaded from the Internet in a simple fashion. "The nerd vocabulary of codecs, networking protocols and a hodgepodge of digital rights management schemes needs to be tamed," he said.

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