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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DTG Group Challenges Semi-Open Stance of Project Canvas
February 5, 2010 – 6:55 pm | No Comment
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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …