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  • OMS Video at “The State of the Web 2009”

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    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 is nothing that standards bodies can solve. The most promising is that Sun Microsystems is developing an open codec…

  • MPEG at 20

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    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, Lawrence A. Horn, CEO of the license administration company, affirmed the: “Freedom of Licensors and Licensees to develop competing…

  • Patent Issues Top Open Media Goals

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    “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 future of open media codecs”, the FOMS group has set aside 15% of its budget to support patent analysis.…

  • Why the Digital TV Delay May be a Good Thing

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    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 questionable interests of highly doubtful economic value to enfranchise millions of consumers into the digital TV transition who should never…

  • Mozilla Foundation Invests in Open Video

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    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 libraries. That’s great news, hugely deserved, and even TechCrunch took note. Congratulations! Now venture capitalists, enterprises, governments, education & research facilities…

  • Hey Obama: Rethink Digital Television

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    “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 overcharging scam? That’s the gist of a filing last week to the FCC by two US-based TV makers,…

  • Royalty-Free Java DTV Specification Released for Brazil and the World

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    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” may not be exactly household words, but they are the backbone specifications of the interactivity layer of Blu-ray, US…

  • OMS Video Draft Specification Released

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    The “Open Media Stack – Video Specification V0.9” is now available for community review at the Open Media Commons website. OMS, announced in April 2008, is a project of Sun Microsystems’ Open Media Commons initiative to define a complete, royalty-free media specification, including codecs and associated elements. The OMS Video draft is a key milestone…