"The Digital Home Working Group, which is a very exciting moment in the history of personal computing and consumer electronics, is aimed at breaking down what... I'll call it the Berlin Wall that currently separates our personal computers and computing devices from our consumer electronics products in the home like our television sets, our home theatres, DVD players and so forth."
The group's goal is to deliver guidelines for manufacturers to adhere to in making products within the next 12 months. The idea...
"I can go into any store and buy a radio tuner from one company, a pair of speakers from somebody else, a CD player from yet another company... know that that I can go home and plug these things together and they're just going to work. We want to attain that same kind of interoperability."
There are technical obstacles... and differing opinions about which standards should prevail... but at least the Digital Home Working Group is a start. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.