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Monday, October 28, 2002
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 Monday, October 28, 2002
started 10/30/2002; 8:19:32 AM - last post 10/31/2002; 8:42:16 AM
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Doc Searls - Monday, October 28, 2002 
10/30/2002; 12:19:32 PM (reads: 6893, responses: 4)
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Exciteable dudes 
Kinda gives you the warm cruddies
| | Says here that the conversion of the ordinary AM and FM dials from analog to digital will be accomplished using a proprietary transmission method licensed exclusively by iBiquity. Here's who's behind it: |
| | The board of directors includes prominent radio broadcasters, government regulatory and emerging technology experts, such as Mel Karmazin of Viacom, Gregory Simon of Simon Strategies, Fred Wilson of Flatiron Partners, and Thomas Uhlman of Lucent Technologies. iBiquity Digital's radio broadcast ownership group has coverage in over 220 of the 276 Arbitron-rated markets, access to over 200 million listeners, and account for nearly half of the broadcast industry¹s total revenues. |
| | iBiquity Digital is building on this ownership base and assembling the broad business coalition necessary to ensure radio's rapid transition to a digital future. It has entered into strategic alliances with radio broadcast transmission equipment manufacturers: Andrew, Armstrong, Broadcast Electronics, Continental Electronics, Dielectric, Energy-Onix, Harris, Jampro RF Systems, Lowpass Prototype, Moseley Associates, Nautel, Orban,QEI, Shively Labs, and Telos/Cutting Edge: semiconductor manufacturers; Philips Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments: receiver manufacturers Alpine, Fujitsu Ten, Harmon Kardon, Kenwood, Mitsubishi, Recoton, Sanyo and Visteon: and wireless data content providers Accuweather, The Associated Press, and Smartroute Systems. Each member of this growing coalition has agreed to develop coordinated strategies for the market launch of iBiquity Digital¹s IBOC technology and its associated products. |
| | I'm all for inventors getting the credit, the patents, and whatever else they deserve for their good work. Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, inventor of FM radio, should have benefitted from his good work, but ended up a suicide after getting steamrolled by RCA and other industrial giants. |
| | But this is a yet another top-down industrial move. Is there DRM in this system? Consider the sources. Will you be able to build a receiver that lets you do whatever you want with the digital signal? Yeah, right. |
| | These guys talk about a "digital future" that never would have happened if it hadn't been for the Armstrongs of the Internet. |
| | Thanks to Dean for the pointers. |
Gullets gag on Net goods
| | Says here online sales are down. Come to think of it, I did forget to buy shit online during the last quarter. I'll try to make it up and see what happens. |
Which makes him youger than 3 of our 4 kids
Clean
| | It's a simple way to call procedures running on other machines, on other OSes, written in other languages, using different economic systems, without being forced to pay a tax to Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun or the W3C. |
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Fred Grott - Dave makes sense on SOAP
10/30/2002; 3:22:42 PM (reads: 606, responses: 1)
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I agree with Dave the list of who not to pay taxes to with SOAP should included RMS....
BUt we might as well add some others , ICANN is the one I come up with right now.. but I am sure there are others beyond Dave's list to add..
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Dave Winer - Re: Dave makes sense on SOAP
10/30/2002; 3:25:00 PM (reads: 711, responses: 0)
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Ralph Brandi - iBiquitous
10/31/2002; 9:58:36 AM (reads: 663, responses: 1)
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Says in the Newsday article that broadcasters originally supported the Eureka 147 format for broadcasts. Wrong! The development of iBiquity's IBOC format was done because legacy broadcasters didn't want to lose the equity they'd built up over the years in their current dial positions, and they didn't want to open the possibility for new competition. So they insisted on creating a system that would piggyback on their existing signals. And since the dials are full (and IBOC is only going to make them more full; you can't add this much information to a signal without spilling onto adjacent channels), there's no room for new competition. Voila! They get to have their cake and eat it too!
If I lived closer to Canada, I would probably have already bought one of their Eureka 147-based digital radios. It's interesting that this is the first instance I can recall where Canada selected a broadcasting technology that the US had ruled out.
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Doc Searls - Re: iBiquitous
10/31/2002; 12:42:16 PM (reads: 749, responses: 0)
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I don't blame legacy broadcasters for trying to protect their legacies. I do blame the FCC for allowing those broadcastesr exclusively to own both sides of the market for a single and exclusive closed transmission technology. And for not finding the spectrum, too.
I don't blame the FCC for not having the vision to realize that the best system is one with no proprietary transmission technologies, and which allows anybody to listen to anything anywhere — in other words, something that extends, and runs on, the wireless Internet. That would be expecting too much.
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