Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won’t Fix Set Top Gridlock
February 5, 2010 – 11:45 pm | No Comment

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 …

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Why the Digital TV Delay May be a Good Thing
February 2, 2009 – 5:25 pm | 4 Comments
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 …

Hey Obama: Rethink Digital Television
January 21, 2009 – 7:31 pm | 5 Comments
Hey Obama: Rethink Digital Television

“American consumers will purchase more than 45 million DTVs
and will be overcharged more than one billion dollars in the
crucial digital transition years of 2008 and 2009 alone”
What?  The transition to digital TV is a massive …