Articles by Rob Glidden
In late 2001, to much industry enthusiasm, H.264 and MPEG-4 AVC were launched as the world’s unifying codec family in a joint project between ITU and ISO/MPEG with the undertaking that the “JVT [Joint Video …
Last week, Business News Americas broke the story that the ATSC Forum — the industry group that lobbies for the international adoption of the US ATSC digital TV standard of the Advanced Television Systems Committee …
I’ve pointed out how the EBU, the world’s largest organization of national broadcasters, is beating the drum to avoid patent lock-ins in new standards for hybrid broadcast-broadband TV services.
EBU’s own write-up of last week’s EBU/ETSI …
“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 …
A “Julius Stonian” observation: standards groups aren’t “consensus organizations”, they are political organizations. Winners declare their way the “consensus”, and changes in political context shift the “consensus”.
So reflects calls in several slides at yesterday’s Hybrid …
Europe sneers at their technology.
US’s DTV transition passed them by.
BBC’s intelligentsia never noticed them.
No consumer electronics industry to match Asia;
neighbors don’t speak their language.
So how did Brazil become a world leader in digital TV?
And why …
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 …
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 …
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 …
September 1, 2009
VIA ECFS AND ELECTRONIC MAIL [pdf here]
Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
Office of the Secretary
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
Re: Notice of Written Ex Parte Presentation
In the Matter of Petition for Rulemaking and …
