JamieG Analysis

This week I was lucky to have a Flex evangelist from Adobe, Daniel Dura, come to my town of Melbourne to tote the Adobe line.  Of course, being a “digital media head” I drilled him on all the questions I could think of that would give me a peek into the future directions of Adobe.
During [...]

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Today I want to discuss interactive TV, the Holy Grail that unfortunately does not exist. Well not like we expected it to exist.
Before we jump into the current issues surrounding Interactive TV, let’s look at some perceived ideas of what it is and how history may have a twist on these ideas.
Interactive TV is [...]

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My most popular post on my blog has been “AppleTV will be a new beginning at MacWorld“. It has now been a week since Macworld ended. I decided to wait a little and watch the ripple effect of Steve Jobs’ announcements.
I personally felt the Keynote was very disappointing, but after getting over the HYPE [...]

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Recently I posted some comments here regarding how the PORN industry is a crystal ball for future trends on online video media.
Soon after TechCrunch posted this list showing the fastest growing sites on the internet.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/youporn-were-coming-up-behind-you/
First and fourth are youtube type sites that focus on PORN.
I had already noticed quite a few sites like these, but [...]

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Philip Hodgetts and I are arguing over H.264 again….
Philip comments on H.264 for consumer cameras:
> It’s nice to have high quality codec choices, but I don’t see AVCHD as
> it is currently implemented in the cheap HD camcorders reaching the 
> appeal of HDV.  Cheap and convenient seems to sell more than great 
> quality. [...]

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