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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Yes! You are completely correct. There can be no hype until there is a standard.
And one of my gripes with Sony is that they blew their chance to make a standard. If they had chosen to use an existing DRM format instead of creating their own, that would have become the standard.
A little background: I am a computer science major at public university. I just finished my bachelor's and am now working on my master's.
Last night I started thinking about how I would write the conversion software. If we had the specs for the input and the output formats, creating a one to one converter is not that difficult. It's on the level of a programming project in a certain senior level CS class.
I would like to add that I don't mean to trivialize KovidGoyal's work. I deeply respect and admire him for taking the time to write the conversion software. I also admire him because he had to work blind; we still don't know the specs for lrf.
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Thing is, Sony would never had a chance to be "THE standard". Not with it's goodwill garnered with their rootkit-affaire.
Just like WMV and RealMedia never became the standard for protable digital music devices. WMV is from the big bad company, and no matter how powerful, it didn't stand a chance. RealMedia got punched to the ground because of their own stupid act to throw in every imaginable ad into their program.
While MP3 had free convertors and players (winamp)
I'm a software developer myself for quite some time, and when I made my manga2ebook, i deliberately did not create a complete conversion tool that would create one file in one session (IE, from images to lrf). Because I'm sure that when newer devices are out, the fileformat will shift.
Therefor I chose to program something that could do intermediate formats and flexible enough to use it for more situations.
In the end, it creates, enhances and resize images to dimensions I can set.
And it create a document that, like it or not, is still the most commonly accepted format: PDF.
And if anything new comes out in the future, I can simply use those new to be made PDF2xxx tools to convert to the required format then.