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		<title>Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won&#8217;t Fix Set Top Gridlock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standards &#8220;would thwart, not advance, innovation&#8221; and &#8220;entail crippling delays&#8221;  because they are &#8220;extremely time consuming, often divisive, and sometimes used by one faction to block the progress of another or to promote its own ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/02/gateway-to-nowhere-standards-bashing-wont-fix-set-top-gridlock/</link>
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		<title>DTG Group Challenges Semi-Open Stance of Project Canvas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last August I questioned if the BBC-led hybrid DTV Project Canvas was &#8220;seduced by the cynical allure of a semi-open &#8217;standards-based open environment&#8216;&#8221; .
Many kudos to the DTG &#8212; the lead UK DTV standards group ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/02/dtg-challenges-project-canvas-semi-open-stance/</link>
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		<title>FCC Video Device Innovation Notice:  We Need an Open Video Internet!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC Video Device Innovation Notice [1] asks one of the most fundamentally central questions to the prospect of not only a viable Broadband Plan for America, but also to the very future of the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/12/fcc-video-device-innovation-open-video-internet/</link>
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		<title>Royalty free codec standards &#8212; don&#8217;t settle for less</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lively debate, the IETF appears to be moving forward with a royalty-free audio codec standardization activity.  Here&#8217;s to its successful launch and positive outcome.
I&#8217;ve put a brief summary at the mpegrf.com site, and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/12/royalty-free-codec-standards-dont-settle-for-less/</link>
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		<title>A Royalty-Free MPEG: It&#8217;s Time for ISO and ITU to Deliver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In late 2001, to much industry enthusiasm, H.264 and MPEG-4 AVC were launched as the world&#8217;s unifying codec family in a joint project between ITU and ISO/MPEG with the undertaking that the &#8220;JVT [Joint Video ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/12/time-to-complete-royalty-free-mpeg/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Quit – Evolve!  ATSC Forum to Close Doors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Business News Americas broke the story that the ATSC Forum &#8212; the industry group that lobbies for the international adoption of the US ATSC digital TV standard of the Advanced Television Systems Committee ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/09/dont-quit-evolve-atsc-forum-to-close-doors/</link>
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		<title>Broadcasters Challenge Broadband TV Patent Submarine Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve pointed out how the EBU, the world&#8217;s largest organization of national broadcasters, is beating the drum to avoid patent lock-ins in new standards for hybrid broadcast-broadband TV services.
EBU&#8217;s own write-up of last week&#8217;s EBU/ETSI ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/09/ebu-challenges-broadband-tv-standards-patent-submarines/</link>
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		<title>Patent Dumping For Democracy:  Reconsidering America&#8217;s DTV Diplomacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“More Democratic” &#8230; “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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/09/reconsidering-americas-dtv-diplomacy/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Conflict Through Consensus&#8221;: Europe&#8217;s Hybrid Broadbanders Paint on UK&#8217;s Project Canvas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A “Julius Stonian” observation:  standards groups aren&#8217;t &#8220;consensus organizations&#8221;, they are political organizations. Winners declare their way the &#8220;consensus&#8221;, and changes in political context shift the &#8220;consensus&#8221;.
So reflects calls in several slides at yesterday&#8217;s Hybrid ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/09/conflict-through-consensus-in-hybrid-tv-standards/</link>
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		<title>The BRIC That Could: How Brazil Is Changing Your TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Europe sneers at their technology.
US&#8217;s DTV transition passed them by.
BBC&#8217;s intelligentsia never noticed them.
No consumer electronics industry to match Asia;
neighbors don&#8217;t speak their language.
So how did Brazil become a world leader in digital TV?
And why ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/09/the-bric-that-could-how-brazil-is-changing-tv/</link>
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