Problem or Opportunity? Steve Jobs on Standardizing Royalty Free Codecs
June 3, 2010 – 4:38 pm | No Comment

As readers of this blog know, I am a long-time proponent of royalty-free standardization as the best option for open Web media, preferable to informal, vendor-run open-sourcing of undocumented or unreviewed Intellectual Property Rights.
MPEG, an …

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Sun Microsystems’ Open Media Stack and OMS Video codec

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OMS Video at “The State of the Web 2009″
February 18, 2009 – 11:03 am | No Comment

Sun’s OMS Video codec work was mentioned in Matt Raible’s notes from the “The State of the Web 2009″ session at this week’s Web Directions North conference:
“Very specifically, there’s no royalty-free codec for video. This …

MPEG at 20
February 12, 2009 – 12:11 pm | 4 Comments

Updating market information in this post on the release of the royalty-free OMS Video draft specification, here are data points about MPEG released at the MPEG 20th Year Anniversary Commemoration in Tokyo in November 2008.
Importantly, …

Patent Issues Top Open Media Goals
February 10, 2009 – 4:55 pm | One Comment

“Patent and legal issues” topped, at least numerically, the community goals developed at the recently-held Foundations of Open Media 2009 workshop, a write-up of which was just posted here.
Also noted in “Patents and the bright …

Why the Digital TV Delay May be a Good Thing
February 2, 2009 – 5:25 pm | 4 Comments
Why the Digital TV Delay May be a Good Thing

To be blunt:  America has the world’s most overpriced, antiquated, under-performing and anti-convergence digital TV system, and yet another delay in transition will create yet another round of inevitably-necessary but paper-over-the-problems government subsidies to highly …