[opendtv] Re: Get rid of Interlaced Media?

I wonder if Congress really knows they may be subsidizing a $23 per TV patent gift to a small group of ATSC members.
Standards setting has become a real shell game in the last couple decades. First you register a bunch of previously known and marginal ideas. Then you get them made into a standard. Next you have the government declare that standard mandatory. Finally you have the government help pay for the IP of that now-mandatory standard. 

- Tom


Dale Kelly wrote:

Various members wrote:


Interlace provided the CE industry with a wonderful tool to
retrench all kinds of IP that was either expired, or about
to expire. They




The scuttlebutt was that Zenith would not raise its royalty per
set for including E-VSB if a licensee agreed to vote for E-VSB
and to continue paying royalty for term of E-VSB patents.
E. g., no increase in royalty, but a time extension.
Struck me as an illegal tying arrangement.




There is little room for innovation with the ATSC standard,
and overt efforts to stifle it. A great example is the refusal
to modify the standard to include perfectly legal MPEG-2 modes.



These incidents/issues say volumes about the ATSC process; it's mostly about
protecting ones turf.

Dale
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