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Entries from July 2007

Open source DRM and what it means to projects like Web-Joost

July 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Firstly I would like to say that this article is not about the possible evil use of DRM. In the blogesphere, the word “DRM” has a very negative connotation. I would like the reader to look past this and examine some of the technical issues I would like to discuss. However, I do [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight · codecs · flash

The Mac, more and more like the PC

July 28th, 2007 · No Comments

It is well documented that the Mac is gaining considerably in the number of computers sold. In real terms, the Mac has never done better then it is doing today. Lets have a look at this in today’s blog.
Apple Mac Computer market share of the home computer market is flying high, however, the [...]

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Tags: Apple · Microsoft

The future of the relationship between web designer and technical implementer

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

There is a podcaster, Adam Hay, who does a podcast called RookieDesigner.
Recently he asked for submissions of questions. So I have taken the opportunity to make a recording and send it to him.
The recording is here.
To quickly go over this recording, I talk about future Web trends (What web3.0 may be) in the RIA [...]

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Tags: Silverlight · flash · flex

One codec to rule them all, Part2 Web Video

July 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments

To follow on from my inital post, lets now look into Web Video.The current players are;

Flash Video (H.263 and On2 VP6)
Quicktime Video (Older Sorensons, more recent H.264)
Microsoft Windows Media 9.

If we look at these, it is widely accepted that the most widely used codec is those based on FLASH. A combination of H.263 and [...]

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Tags: IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight · codecs · flash · flex

One codec to rule them all

July 5th, 2007 · No Comments

I have been doing a lot of work in the codec area recently.
From trying to come up with a new standard for Cinema Exhibition that is cheaper then going full DCI, but as close to DCI as we can get.. To the adoption of the next generation online video codecs.
Lets look at DCI first. [...]

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Tags: DCI · IPTV · codecs