Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Wegberg Marc van Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: Architectural battles in the multimedia market Abstract: Competition in the emerging multimedia market currently focuses on setting standards for storing, retrieving, processing, (de)compressing, and transmitting information. Each multimedia system or architecture combines several standards, some proprietary. This paper uses selected insights from industrial economics to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the architectural companies by means of some hypotheses. These may guide further research. Keywords: industrial organization ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 1995 Number: 008 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:74daa63c-47dc-4ef3-938e-1689f468ce56/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 124591 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:1995008