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Microsoft patents upcoming Digital Media Standards

Microsoft has just been awarded two patents (US 6,510,177 and US 6,683,980) for a method of packing a high-definition television signal onto a hard drive, internetnews.com reports. The article goes on to quote anonymous experts who praise the methods patented here are basic and advantageous building blocks of any future digital media standards and speculate that Microsoft's "Windows Media 9 technology" will become irresistible if it is the only one that can use these methods. Microsoft has meanwhile published licensing conditions for its protocols which make it clear that they cannot be used by opensource software.

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