A new alliance of electronic manufacturers plan to make setting up a high definition home theater system trivial. They want to use FireWire as a common connection standard, allowing all of the devices to talk to each other and coordinate through a single cable. This was the hope of FireWire when it was introduced years ago and specifically designed to not require a computer “master” in order to operate. I’m glad electronic makers have *finally* realized that interoperability is a *good* thing.