Problem or Opportunity? Steve Jobs on Standardizing Royalty Free Codecs
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Problem or Opportunity? Steve Jobs on Standardizing Royalty Free Codecs
June 3, 2010 – 4:38 pm | No Comment

As readers of this blog know, I am a long-time proponent of royalty-free standardization as the best option for open Web media, preferable to informal, vendor-run open-sourcing of undocumented or unreviewed Intellectual Property Rights.
MPEG, an …

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Patent Dumping For Democracy: Reconsidering America’s DTV Diplomacy
September 15, 2009 – 4:58 pm | No Comment
Patent Dumping For Democracy: Reconsidering America’s DTV Diplomacy

“More Democratic” … “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 …

Java@Digital TV Conference
March 12, 2009 – 12:10 pm | No Comment

A bright potential is shining for interactive TV in Brazil, which has a unique moment of opportunity to start from a complete, royalty-free specification — Ginga – and avoid the systemic stalling gridlock that has …

Royalty-Free Java DTV Specification Released for Brazil and the World
January 12, 2009 – 2:03 pm | 8 Comments

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” …