Surprised nobody posted about this already :)
From the MPEG LA:
MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will
continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to
end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next
License term from January 1,
Surprised nobody posted about this already :)
From the MPEG LA:
MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License
will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that
is free to end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video)
during the next License term from
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 17:09, Christopher Woods
chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
So how does this affect the Beeb? Because effectively licencepayers are
paying for the iPlayer service as part of the portfolio even though its
usage doesn't require a licence... Or has the BBC always paid licence
Nothing changes - H.264 for Internet Broadcast has been free,
but was due to require a paid license as of this year.
MPEG-LA have extended the free period for 5 years.
(The BBC probably _does_ have a license for the AVC family,
but it wouldn't affect this).
Any idea why the MPEG-LA did
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 18:32, Christopher Woods
chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
Any idea why the MPEG-LA did this then? Seems to be quite an about-turn
given everyoen was bracing for enforced commercial licensing...
A sudden outbreak of common sense?
Given the fees that were being mooted,
Think the adobe media encoders come with licenses as standard
Would suspect the akamai media cdn servers also have there licenses covered
in any case,
Ant
On 04/02/2010 18:32, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
Nothing changes - H.264 for Internet Broadcast has been free,
Thoughts on postcard?
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Subject: [GeekUp] Fwd: Slashdot| Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:56:22 +
From: Paul Robinson p...@vagueware.com
To: GeekUp gee...@googlegroups.com
I saw this over on the Open Manufacturing list, and figured
Tim Dobson wrote:
Thoughts on postcard?
My postcard only has tickboxes for 'wish you were here', 'having a
lovely time' and 'Had a lovely time at iDisney', all the rest of the
card is too slippery to write on, what do I do?
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Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To
Use a PC.
Macs are consumer hardware - and it's never been suggested that
they're anything else.
Don't forget, the vast majority of people want their computer to just
work - and that means: email, web browsing, basic word processing and
maybe a spreadsheet. Oh, and handling their digital
Christopher Woods wrote:
Nothing changes - H.264 for Internet Broadcast has been free,
but was due to require a paid license as of this year.
MPEG-LA have extended the free period for 5 years.
(The BBC probably _does_ have a license for the AVC family,
but it wouldn't affect this).
Any
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 01:29, Richard Lockwood
richard.lockw...@gmail.com wrote:
Use a PC.
Macs are consumer hardware - and it's never been suggested that
they're anything else.
Er, eh?
Are we talking about the same thing, here?
_iPads and iPhones_ are consumer hardware, no shadow of a
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