Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
well - I primarly understand it as graphical videotext replacement with some interactivity features. when you ask what sense it makes you could as well ask who really needs the internet...Holger Waechtler wrote:Klaus Schmidinger wrote:Holger Waechtler wrote:Jörg Knitter wrote: ...P.S.: Feel free to answer this mail as PM as not everyone might be interested... First of all, I want to know, if we will ever get a VDR incl. MHP with nearly the same video quality as when using the TV out of the OSD-limited Nexus.no - that's pretty unlikely, MHP requires a much more flexible OSD than the av711x provides.I'm going to make VDR's OSD interface much more abstract, so that if you actually have a device that can do a full screen 256 color OSD, a plugin could make use of that. @Holger: would a full screen, 256 color OSD be sufficient for MHP, or does it requite even more?IIRC you need a full-color display. A more serious problem is that the MHP spec requires at least an OSD, a video and a stillpicture layer, maybe even multiple still layers (maybe these could get faked using the window stack). But that's just like I remind things, if anybody here has the specs handy please check and report whether my memory is true...But then again, who needs MHP... ;-);) I didn't asked for it - just grep your VDR-ML inbox to find out who's asking again and again...That's most likely because people tend to like "buzz-words". They hear that MHP is the big hype, and so they want it. What does MHP really give you? IMHO it is mainly wanted by providers who want to _sell_ stuff through it, or otherwise draw money out of viewers' pockets. Everything that now takes a (costly) phone call shall be possible through the remote control (that's also why everybody wants a "back channel", so that the viewer's box can connect to the provider and pump money to their accounts).
As for the EPGs: sure, every bouquet could have its own, fancy EPG display then - but what the viewer IMHO needs is an EPG display that covers _ALL_ channels - and I doubt that the various bouquets will agree on _one_ interface.
agreed.
:) even more true - MHP was probably not designed for games or with any performance considerations in mind - and if so it's a pretty poor design...And, last but not least, games: well, if you want to play games, get a game console...