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Entries from September 2008

Canon 5D revolution and on PhotoGeek

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently Canon released a new camera  called the EOS 5D MkII.  This camera can shoot video as well as being a 22mega pixel stills camera.  I was on the Photogeek.tv podcast last week talking about it.  You can find some amazing videos and behind the scenes information on Vincent Laforet ’s blog.
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Tags: Film Making · Post Production · cinema · codecs

Apple’s assault on web standards.

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

In a recent post called “A fly in Steve’s soup (Apple’s path to online video)” I wrote about how Apple is bringing together a digital media ecosystem that could become a total end to end solution for playing all you media.  Buy once and play everywhere, but with a DRM systems.  Apple’s DRM system of [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · Standards

IPTV individual custom streaming based on demographic.

September 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

No matter what technology does eventually get traction and become the future of our digital media future, advertising is still going to be a big part of it.  Advertising is why we have “Free-to-air” TV.  It’s not really free, as you have to endure the ads.  This does, however, give us a window into what [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

The industry is growing up. DRM is Dead. Long Live DRM.

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

A long time ago, before I started this blog (Over 2 years ago), I spent a lot of time on writing comments to other blogs.  Specifically about DRM and its only real roll, if it had any at all, in the future of digital media. In general I was usually flamed with no one even [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards

Javascript frameworks. Is it the future?

September 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

An interesting post on TechCrunch was pointed out to me today by Philip Hodgetts.  Philip has been putting his acceptance behind the open-web based around the push by Apple into WebKit/javascript and Javascript frameworks like Sproutcore. (Note this can also now be said for Google and the new Chrome browser) Today we have another contender [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Development · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards · flash · flex · google