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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Broadband Policy

A Royalty-Free Network Policy For Broadband

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16 years of “Grand Alliance”, not royalty-free yet?

Interactive TV

Fixing the Sad State of this Promising Convergence

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Royalty-Free Java for DTV

OMS Video

Sun Microsystems’ Open Media Stack and OMS Video codec

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Four Ways to Tell if the FCC’s Open Set Top Interface is On Track
March 18, 2010 – 2:11 pm | No Comment
Four Ways to Tell if the FCC’s Open Set Top Interface is On Track

It is gratifying to see the FCC Broadband Plan include an open set top recommendation (4.12), firmly grounded in the FCC’s continuing responsibility to implement section 629 of the 1996 Telco Act to …

Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won’t Fix Set Top Gridlock
February 5, 2010 – 11:45 pm | No Comment
Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won’t Fix Set Top Gridlock

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 …

FCC Video Device Innovation Notice: We Need an Open Video Internet!
December 14, 2009 – 11:02 pm | No Comment
FCC Video Device Innovation Notice:  We Need an Open Video Internet!

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 …