{"id":1220,"date":"2023-07-25T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2023-07-25T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T00:20:05","slug":"google-best-buy-sony-and-others-form-alliance-to-defend-fccs-proposed-allvid-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Google, Best Buy, Sony and others form alliance to defend FCC&#8217;s proposed &#8216;AllVid&#8217; standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>We&#8217;ve already seen Sony, TiVo and others AllVid, but it looks like they&#8217;re now stepping up their game considerably. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the group &#8212; which also includes Google, Best Buy, Mitsubishi and others &#8212; has announced that they&#8217;ve formed the &#8220;AllVid Tech Company Alliance&#8221; in a concerted effort to defend the proposed AllVid standard, and counter arguments from those opposed to it &#8212; namely, the National Cable &amp; Telecommunications Association (or NCTA) and the cable companies that are a part of it. As you might expect, the Alliance isn&#8217;t making a lot of new arguments, but it is stating its position pretty frankly, telling the FCC that &#8220;it is essential for the Commission to break down the wall separating the home network from MVPD [or pay TV] networks \u2013 not just poke a few holes in it, or rely on progress on the peripheries.&#8221; You can find the complete letter (in PDF form) at the source link below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already seen Sony, TiVo and others AllVid, but it looks like they&#8217;re now stepping up their game considerably. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the group &#8212; which also includes Google, Best Buy, Mitsubishi and others &#8212; has announced that they&#8217;ve formed the &#8220;AllVid Tech Company Alliance&#8221; in a concerted effort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1656,1657,1658,1659,1660,1661,600,953,1000,1662,105,1663,94,1664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}