The ATSC Forum didn’t lose out in South America to an informal small group of vendors presenting themselves as a broader industry interest. In fact the opposite — multiple high level governments involved.

Just look at the isdbt.org web site to see what I mean. DTV adoptions and digital transitions everywhere have a very strong, necessary involvement of multiple actors: government, formal industry bodies, and individual companies, and if anything in DTT digital transitions around the world the trend seems more so.

Rob

How does the ATSC Forum demise match up with industry consortium efforts like Silicon Image announcement with Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Sony and Toshiba on mating CE portable/mobile HD with existing HD electronics?

Do you see a massive shift away from national (US) standards bodies in favor of de facto industry standards? How will this impact the status of the “free” codec movement?

See:
http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Big-CE-firms-link-handsets-HDTV-092909.aspx