> The next step is to make the physical medium completely transparent,
> so I don't care if the content is being delivered from DVD, video
> server, or thumbnail sized nano-archive of *ALL* pre-recorded media.
>
> The point is, the media content should have some kind of unique
> identifier, and the *medium* should be of no concern.
There are several articles touching on this subject at:
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/sj35-34.html
The article, "Media Banks: Entertainment and the Internet" is
specifically on this subject. All of these articles are from the IBM
Systems Journal Vol. 35, Nos. 3&4, 1996. This is the MIT Media Lab
edition.
It looks like IBM is putting every one of their journal articles online.
They are well worth reading.
Cheers,
-- Gregory Houston vertigo@triberian.com 816.561.1524