In today’s post I want to honour my “too cleaver for his own good” brother. Martin Gardiner. Recently I had a director and producer come into our office wanting to do a digital-HD screening for cast and crew. (I do encoding for cinema now and then) Somehow the camera was set up wrong and the [...]
Entries from February 2008
Film saved by a little filter.
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Post Production
Microsoft going Open = Signs of cracks in developer foundations.
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Recently Microsoft announced that they are making available API information (Docs that describe how their products work. Note: no source code). This is a huge plus for everyone using Microsoft technology. I see great things coming from this. Still, I have never seen Microsoft do anything without reason. The documents being released where, until recently, [...]
Tags: Development · Microsoft
Yahoo is playing into Microsoft’s hands.
February 24th, 2008 · No Comments
As the MicroHoo sideshow continues, it is hard not to have something to say about the biggest hostile takeover in IT/Internet history. In a previous post I noted how Microsoft has won either way. The Dam-Buster bomb has gone off and hit its target. We are just waiting for the dame that is Yahoo to [...]
Tags: Microsoft
Blu-Ray in Xbox360. Of course.
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
In Jan this year, I posted to some blogs that I expected Blu-Ray on the Xbox360 before the end of the year. I like making predictions especially when they come true as my June post on Blu-Ray winning, and now Xbox-going Blue-ray. See this article about rumours of Blu-Ray for the Xbox. Still, I want [...]
P2P following HTTP and ftp… About time.
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Following up from a post a while back called: Evolution of file copy. “cp”, “ftp”, “http”, “p2p” A new project in the EU has been setup between a number of educational and corporate entities to give birth to the next big open standard Internet protocol. I.e. an open standard P2P protocol. This is great news [...]
Tags: Development · IPTV · P2P · Standards