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. TheyThe 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----------------------------------------------------------------------You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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