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“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 Broadcast-Broadband (HBB) workshop to look deeper into Intellectual Property Rights and other control points in the new “broadcast+broadband” (aka [...]
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 the tip of the hat to Brazil DTV middleware leader TQTVD, to whom I [...]
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 Forward?“ Slides on DTV patents below; the overall theme that Brazil has become a world DTV leader [...]
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 overall theme that Brazil has become a world DTV leader was picked up in the Brazil [...]
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 Forward?“ The overall theme that Brazil has become a world DTV leader was picked up in the [...]
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 Request for Declaratory Ruling Filed by the Coalition United to Terminate the [...]
“Trust But Verify”: IPR & BBC’s Project Canvas
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 phrase has broadcast more meaning to more people in the great call to communicate that has gripped our [...]
And the Best Answer For Open Web Video Is …
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 an inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on the situation regarding codecs for <video> and <audio> [...]
Patent Fights Fuel US DTV’s Slide from World Stage
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 US DTV system. Filings from Valley View, Philips/LG Electronics, Funai, Thomson, ATSC, Harris, Zenith, MPEG LA, Philips/Qualcomm, and Retire Safe [...]
Wake-Up Call to US FCC: Argentina Looks to Follow Peru in Adopting Japanese-Brazilian Digital TV Standard
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 transition (the “ATSC standard”), Argentine President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is reported to have confirmed that Argentina is about [...]