Problem or Opportunity? Steve Jobs on Standardizing Royalty Free Codecs
Headline »
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 …

Read the full story »
Broadband Policy

A Royalty-Free Network Policy For Broadband

Digital TV

16 years of “Grand Alliance”, not royalty-free yet?

Interactive TV

Fixing the Sad State of this Promising Convergence

Java DTV

Royalty-Free Java for DTV

OMS Video

Sun Microsystems’ Open Media Stack and OMS Video codec

Home » Archive by Month

Article Archive for June 2009

6 Things You Should Know About Open Video & Open Standards
June 11, 2009 – 11:35 pm | No Comment
6 Things You Should Know About Open Video & Open Standards

It is very exciting to see the “Open Video” movement taking off and finding voice with the upcoming Open Video Conference.
This well-earned “open breakthrough” has been a long time coming.  After all, open standards, and …

Royalty-Free Standards Can Be America’s Broadband Advantage
June 8, 2009 – 9:27 pm | No Comment

I have filed comments (available here) to the National Broadband Policy Notice of Information (09-51).  Excerpt from the executive summary:
Open standards, and particularly royalty-free standards, are the very foundation of the Open Internet as we …

US DTV Patent Royalties Range From $24 to $40
June 2, 2009 – 10:04 am | One Comment

Filings last week in the CUT FATT proceeding at the US FCC on patent overcharging in the US digital TV transition claim that royalty demands for US ATSC-standard television receivers range from $24.10 to $40.10, …