JamieG Analysis

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 the [...]

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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 DOMAIN of online-video-sites [...]

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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, we had [...]

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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 fact [...]

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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 [...]

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