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.
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A Royalty-Free MPEG: It’s Time for ISO and ITU to Deliver
December 7, 2009 – 10:49 pm | 3 Comments
A Royalty-Free MPEG: It’s Time for ISO and ITU to Deliver

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 …

Don’t Quit – Evolve! ATSC Forum to Close Doors
September 21, 2009 – 3:00 pm | 2 Comments
Don’t Quit – Evolve!  ATSC Forum to Close Doors

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 …

Broadcasters Challenge Broadband TV Patent Submarine Threat
September 16, 2009 – 1:00 pm | No Comment
Broadcasters Challenge Broadband TV Patent Submarine Threat

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 …

Patent Dumping For Democracy: Reconsidering America’s DTV Diplomacy
September 15, 2009 – 4:58 pm | No Comment
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 …

“Conflict Through Consensus”: Europe’s Hybrid Broadbanders Paint on UK’s Project Canvas
September 10, 2009 – 11:11 pm | No Comment
“Conflict Through Consensus”: Europe’s Hybrid Broadbanders Paint on UK’s Project Canvas

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 …

The BRIC That Could: How Brazil Is Changing Your TV
September 3, 2009 – 1:22 pm | No Comment
The BRIC That Could: How Brazil Is Changing Your TV

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 …

DTV Patent Pools: What’s Wrong & How to Fix It
September 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm | No Comment
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 …

Hybrid TV: The Way Forward?
September 2, 2009 – 5:17 pm | No Comment
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 …

What Have We Learned From the Digital Switch Over?
September 2, 2009 – 5:16 pm | No Comment
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 …

With Argentina Embracing ISDB, ATSC Forum Should Look at Its Education Function
September 1, 2009 – 7:55 pm | No Comment
With Argentina Embracing ISDB, ATSC Forum Should Look at Its Education Function

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 …