Patents and the Digital TV Standard?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday March 18, 2001 @12:29PM from the stuff-to-talk-about dept.

Karpe asks: "I noticed that the Brazilian Telecom Agency is not sure if they should use the American Digital TV standard or the Japanese. Brazilian media is saying that if most TV programs we watch are american and not japanese, we should use the american standard, but the agency is not sure because of the technical aspects. I was wondering, in this world of patents, can someone help on which patents should be licensed in order to make ATSC DTV devices? I think this should be a fundamental aspect in the decision. Dolby says it will license it's AC-3 audio under reasonable terms and conditions, but what does that mean?"

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Patents by Detritus · 2001-03-18 15:51 · Score: 2

I believe most of the patents are held by Zenith, General Instruments, MIT and AT&T. These were the primary organizations in the development of the ATSC standard.

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