This report gives a brief status of the QIC standardization work. QIC (Quarter Inch Committee) is an international standardization committee that make standards for a wide range of tape streamers using Quarter Inch media.
Brief descriptions of some of the competing tape standards in the market today, such as LTO, DLT, AIT and DDS are included.
The report also gives an overview over the ongoing DAVIC standardization that is relevant to SMASH. The Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC) is a non-profit Association based in Geneva, Switzerland, aimed at promoting the success of
Digital audio-visual applications and services based on specifications that maximize interoperability across countries and applications/services.
Within the context of SMASH we have responded to the Call for Proposals Number 11 regarding "Local Storage in the Home". We have defined user and market requirements and discussed example applications for local storage in a DAVIC Set-Top Unit (STU). The discussion on the technical issues is still ongoing. However, we have made a proposal for a provisional API.
In this report we summarize the following documents: