JamieG Analysis

This week on “The Digital Production Buzz“, they had Rob Willox of Sony Professional product line (VTRs Hi-end Digital Cameras).  This was an interesting interview as it shows how Sony are reacting to the trend towards Tapeless Workflow.  This includes the development of solid state express card cameras and optical recording done by the EX-cam [...]

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You like a podcast.  You want to sponsor it.  Imagine if you can arrange to pay 10cents per episode when you download it……  All automatic.
I am a big fan of the twit.tv network.  I listen to 2-3 hours of it per week.  When I initially started listening, I even bpayed $10 as a donation to [...]

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There is an interesting site I follow called DRMwatch.
Obviously it has articles/posts that are about DRM (Digital Rights Managment)  For example, Apples Itunes not letting you play the files on any other system apart from YOUR personal computer or your Ipod.
This site, as it is about DRM, is generally VERY pro DRM.
In any case, there [...]

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Sony is about to release a VTR that actually answers the needs of a modern Post Production House.  This has been a long time coming.  And in some ways I would like to think I had a hand in shaping its future. (see here)
A number of years ago, back when the HDCAM deck was released, [...]

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I have been writing about Blu-Ray a lot over the past year. More than I expected. I predicted it winning the war 8 months before hand. I predicted Microsoft would install Blu-Ray drives once HD-DVD lost.
I don’t count myself cleaver for making these predictions. Just level headed.
Now, apart from writing about [...]

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