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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Sun Microsystems’ Open Media Stack and OMS Video codec

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Why the Digital TV Delay May be a Good Thing
February 2, 2009 – 5:25 pm | 4 Comments
Why the Digital TV Delay May be a Good Thing

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 …

Hey Obama: Rethink Digital Television
January 21, 2009 – 7:31 pm | 5 Comments
Hey Obama: Rethink Digital Television

“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 …