Articles in Digital TV
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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, …
