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Entries from August 2007

3D Cinema, do we want it?

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Recently I was at the Australian Movie Convention in Queensland. One of the more interesting topic of the show was the industry push to 3D cinema. Two players in this technology where out to show of 3D. Let me tell you some interesting news..
RealD and Dolby, new to 3D, where there in force to [...]

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Tags: DCI · Post Production

Television 3.0 starts NOW..

August 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

On August 21, 2007, Adobe announced that the Flash player will support H.264.
As mp3 has been for Audio, h.264 can now be considered for Video.
H.264 is used in, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray-DVD, iTunes-Video, AppleTV, many iPod type products. And now it will officially be supported as the codec of choice for Adobe-Flash, the most used [...]

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

Is Watermarks the quarterback for DRM?

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

DRM appears to have taken a knock-out blow in the digital music field of late. However, the game is not over yet. Watermarks has been downplayed, but its time to bring out this rookie and see what he can do with the ball.
Putting the analogies aside, the important issue here is that the market [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM

Apple iMovie exports direct to YouTube as H.264 and not FlashVideo. What does this mean for FlashPlayer?

August 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

As a developer of online applications for video related businesses, I have had a lot to say about the future of Flash and Video. The recent development for YouTube export and how it does it, is an interesting one and I would like to make some follow up comments from my previous post on this [...]

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Tags: Apple · codecs · flash