John Honovich, who has a very good blog/news site dedicated to IP video, posted a good comment a couple weeks back on why he believes it is unlikely traditional DVR manufacturers and video providers will develop standards around how they can be accessed.
I’m still trying to figure out how to link to his comment (I will update the post with the link as soon as I can) so you can read it yourself. One of the arguments that he makes is that the differences amongst all the various DVRs, like the quality of the video that is recorded, will make it difficult for another company, perhaps one that provides analytics, to effectively interface with that recorder. His conclusion is then that video providers should recognize that the industry will lack these standards and shape their business plan accordingly.
While I’m probably more optimistic than John is about whether the industry will adopt some level of standards, I’m also a realist and agree that it will be a long time before anything meaningful happens on that front – much longer than we would ever factor into our near time business model. In the meantime, we have been thinking about ways to interface with multiple DVR manufacturers with our MVaaS solution to increase our addressable market. More on that later.
