An international and cross-industry group of more than 20 companies has formed the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a consortium that aims to define and build a new digital media framework using industry standards.
The group hopes to enable consumers to acquire and play content across a wide range of services and devices, to eliminate the growing consumer confusion around buying, downloading and playing digital content offered by multiple services.
DECE is led by Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox Entertainment Group, HP, Intel, Lionsgate, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign and Warner Bros. Entertainment.