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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Royalty free codec standards — don’t settle for less
December 9, 2009 – 10:37 pm | No Comment
Royalty free codec standards — don’t settle for less

After a lively debate, the IETF appears to be moving forward with a royalty-free audio codec standardization activity.  Here’s to its successful launch and positive outcome.
I’ve put a brief summary at the mpegrf.com site, and …

Open Video Movement Gains Steam
March 12, 2009 – 1:25 pm | No Comment

The crying need for Open Video continues to break out from under the radar, as evidenced by the blue-ribbon sponsors and diverse community of the just-announced inaugural Open Video Conference to be held June 12.
Organizers …

OMS Video at “The State of the Web 2009″
February 18, 2009 – 11:03 am | No Comment

Sun’s OMS Video codec work was mentioned in Matt Raible’s notes from the “The State of the Web 2009″ session at this week’s Web Directions North conference:
“Very specifically, there’s no royalty-free codec for video. This …

MPEG at 20
February 12, 2009 – 12:11 pm | 4 Comments

Updating market information in this post on the release of the royalty-free OMS Video draft specification, here are data points about MPEG released at the MPEG 20th Year Anniversary Commemoration in Tokyo in November 2008.
Importantly, …

Patent Issues Top Open Media Goals
February 10, 2009 – 4:55 pm | One Comment

“Patent and legal issues” topped, at least numerically, the community goals developed at the recently-held Foundations of Open Media 2009 workshop, a write-up of which was just posted here.
Also noted in “Patents and the bright …

Mozilla Foundation Invests in Open Video
January 27, 2009 – 3:50 pm | No Comment

Open video — specifically open, royalty-free video and media formats — got a boost when Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday it is providing $100K to support development of improved Theora encoders and more powerful playback …