[MPEGIF Discuss] MPEG LA Announces Terms of Joint H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Patent License

[Craig Birkmaier]

At 5:52 PM -0500 11/19/03, Rob Koenen \(MPEGIF\) wrote:
>Craig,
>
>>  My guess is that
>>  the DBS service providers are going to have a very difficult time
>>  dealing with the subscriber use fees...
>
>Could you provide a bit more detail on why this is the case? I'd like to see
>facts and figures in this discussion.

As I understand it, both U.S. DBS providers and newsCorp have stated 
that they will not use any compression technology that charges use 
fees.
Nothing official here, just comments made at conferences, etc. I 
suspect that there will not be any official comments on this until 
Via announces their license terms.
Regards
Craig