Talk:Video Disk Control Protocol

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Broadcast engineering and technology task force (assessed as Low-importance).

The page indicates that VDCP was based on Sony (BVW) protocol, but it has no commands in common. When I was implementing it in the Tek Profile, Ken Louth said that he had based it on a Panasonic laser-disk player protocol, which offered independent control of two player heads, which is where the protocol between cue-next and play commands originated. Ken indicated that the HP prototype (shown at the same NAB at which Profile was introduced) had a control structure much like the laser-disk player.