Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won’t Fix Set Top Gridlock

Standards “would thwart, not advance, innovation” and “entail crippling delays”  because they are “extremely time consuming, often divisive, and sometimes used by one faction to block the progress of another or to promote its own …

What Have We Learned From the Digital Switch Over?

At the 2009 Brazil SET Broadcasting & Cable Conference I presented on 3 panel topics:

“DTV Patent Pools:  What’s Wrong & How to Fix It”
“Conformance & Certification: Key to Digital Switch Over” (pdf)
“Hybrid TV, The Way …

DTG Group Challenges Semi-Open Stance of Project Canvas

Last August I questioned if the BBC-led hybrid DTV Project Canvas was “seduced by the cynical allure of a semi-open ’standards-based open environment‘” .
Many kudos to the DTG — the lead UK DTV standards group …

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 …

Hybrid TV: The Way Forward?

At the 2009 Brazil SET Broadcasting & Cable Conference I presented on 3 panel topics:

“DTV Patent Pools:  What’s Wrong & How to Fix It“
“Conformance & Certification: Key to Digital Switch Over“
“Hybrid TV, The Way Forward?“(pdf)

The …

“Trust But Verify”: IPR & BBC’s Project Canvas

I have filed comments in the UK Project Canvas public consultation.  To catch up on the UK context with global implications, watch James Murdock’s mesmerizing anti-BBC screed, and say…
“This is the BBC.”
Perhaps no other single …

DTV Patent Pools: What’s Wrong & How to Fix It

At the 2009 Brazil SET Broadcasting & Cable Conference I presented on 3 panel topics:

“DTV Patent Pools:  What’s Wrong & How to Fix It” (pdf)
“Conformance & Certification: Key to Digital Switch Over“
“Hybrid TV, The Way …

Patent Dumping For Democracy: Reconsidering America’s DTV Diplomacy

“More Democratic” … “It is a matter of social justice”
So US ambassadors have lobbied South American governments since 2007 that “[t]he issue is whether the government will choose the [ATSC] digital television standard that is …

“Trust But Verify”: IPR & BBC’s Project Canvas

I have filed comments in the UK Project Canvas public consultation.  To catch up on the UK context with global implications, watch James Murdock’s mesmerizing anti-BBC screed, and say…
“This is the BBC.”
Perhaps no other single …