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I have filed comments in the UK Project Canvas public consultation. To catch up on the UK context with global implications, watch James Murdock’s mesmerizing anti-BBC screed, and say…
“This is the BBC.”
Perhaps no other single …
In a virtual rematch of 18 months ago, the HTML 5 community has again stalemated on how to include video capability. On June 29, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson posted on the whatwg mailing list:
After …
The “FATT” is fighting back this week in comments filed at the US FCC against the “Coalition United To Terminate Financial Abuses of the Television Transition” (CUT FATT) proposal to address patent overreaching in the …
What a telling and timely juxtaposition.
On the day responses are due to the US FCC’s request for comments to the CUT FATT request for an official inquiry into patent overcharging in the US digital TV …
Yesterday’s kickoff of the FCC’s Broadband Plan proceedings were broadcast over the Internet in a proprietary video format.
Worse, it was likely converted from a standards-based format to a proprietary format before it was put on …
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the “Recovery Act”, has allocated an unprecedented $7 Billion to broadband and has launched a new chapter of broadband policy in the US.
The coming months will inspire …
What would the Internet look like today if history had been just slightly different?
Say for example the Internet’s open, royalty-free foundation — protocols, HTML, etc. — hadn’t mostly won out?
Leaving only proprietary solutions or shifting …
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 …
“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 …
Sun Microsystems has released a royalty-free Java specification as an alternative to the royalty-encumbered “GEM” and “MHP” family of digital TV specifications developed by the European Digital Video Broadcasting group and associated groups.
“GEM” and “MHP” …
