Over the last 6 years I have spent a lot of time in cinema bio boxes implementing digital e-cinema systems for http://www.d-cinema.com.au. This, however, has given me a great respect for traditional cinema practices. The technology and history that has gone into the evolution of the cinema projector is very interesting. Cinema tends to capture [...]
Entries from January 2008
How a cinema film projector works
January 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Porn, the cristal ball for the future of the Digital Media
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments
This news item pooped up the other day. “Porn barons face up to net threat” This, to me, is a very telling article. The Porn industry has always been considered a window into the future trends of media consumption. As the Internet has matured, porn content has slowly been pirated and moved into the UNRESTRICTED [...]
Tags: DRM · Uncategorized
Fragmentation, an unavoidable trend in media
January 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Continuing with key concepts in digital media, today I would like to focus on “fragmentation”. To help analyse this I would like to focus on a particular aspect of media which, I hope, the general reader has a better hands on experience. Advertising. The general consumer would understand, up until the advent of online/internet advertising, [...]
Tags: Development · digital signage · IPTV · Standards
AVCHD straight to Flash Player 9.3 demo (Flash Rocks)
January 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Recently I got a Xacti VPC-HD1000. This is the smallest 1080i video camera on the market, plus 8M picture camera. It stores the video data on a solid state 4gig SD card in AVCHD. AVCHD is another name for H.264. Flash Player 9 revision 3 recently came out supporting H.264/AAC. This made me consider the [...]
Tags: Adobe · codecs · flash · flex · IPTV
Evolution of file copy. “cp”, “ftp”, “http”, “p2p”
January 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
In a previous post, a comment was posted pointing at a company called “ReelTime“. This is a movie rental service like “Jaman“. Both use a downloaded client that implements a DRM system and also a P2P file transfer system to download the files. The Reeltime P2P service is supplied by “GridNetworks“. I had also recently [...]