In order to participate in the creation of, and determine licensing terms for, a joint VP8 patent license, any party that believes it has patents that are essential to the VP8 video codec specification is invited to submit them for a determination of their essentiality by MPEG LA’s patent evaluators.

Wow, that didn’t take long.

Push subscriptions should also allow people to receive issues in the background rather than make a conscious in-app download.

Is this a new type of background process? If so, can’t wait to get both The Daily and maybe other content that updates content (not the whole magazine, i.e., wired)

Ahead of the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday, Fox Searchlight this month became the first studio to have nearly 100,000 SAG voters view new movies such as “Black Swan” through a free download from Apple Inc.’s iTunes store. Paramount Pictures, Focus Features and other studios did the same later with movies such as “The Fighter” and “The Kids Are All Right.”

Awesome.

It will require that the new company provide its video to Internet and traditional sources on “non-discriminatory” terms if that content is already available to its own online users and to others. Comcast-NBC would be barred from trying to artificially inflate online prices and would have to give Internet rights at prices that are competitive with conventional TV.

Hoping this means that NBC will be back on iTunes very soon.

Simply called TiVo, the DVR pioneer’s new app does double duty as a program guide and remote for TiVo Premiere and TiVo Premiere XL boxes. You can flick through your TV schedule on your iPad and view two weeks of upcoming programming, select a show to start watching on your TV, and schedule one-time recordings as well as Season Pass recordings, even when you’ve ventured out of your living room into the real world.

the Xfinity App can do the same scheduling and browing of the program guide, however, being able to use the TiVo app instead of a remote is exactly where I want to see Apple’s Remote go for my AppleTV. Hopefully someone in Cupertino is working on that. :)

Nokia Corp. said it will discontinue its free music downloads for handsets in several markets as it revamps an online service it launched with record labels to rival Apple Inc.’s iTunes.

So far it seems like the only real competitor to iTunes is Amazon, however, without a better client the Amazon ecosystem is non-existent. 

Microsoft’s going to make a splash in this market with a stripped-down version of Windows tailored for set-top boxes and connected TVs. The software is a version of its embedded device software, overlaid with the Windows Media Center interface, with media streaming and remote-control capabilities.

People do not want their PC on their television. Ok, maybe one person does, but this isn’t the experience that Google, and Microsoft are pushing.

Google is trying to drum up publishers’ support for a new Google-operated digital newsstand for users of devices that run its Android software. With the effort, it is chasing Apple, which already sells digital versions of many major magazines and newspapers through its iTunes store.

The problem is that no one is buying magazines on iPad.

iTunes® users are now renting and purchasing over 400,000 TV episodes and over 150,000 movies per day.

Hear that content providers? And that is with only 2 networks on the new AppleTV. Get on it.

But Google has asked the TV makers to delay their introductions, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, so that it can refine the software, which has received a lukewarm reception.

As it turns out consumer products are not the same as services like Gmail. I can’t wait to see what GoogleTV looks like when the software has been reworked and the content providers are on board.