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Gartner downs Microsoft, OpenComputer and OSX, Flash and Silverlight. It’s all connected.

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I have been watching the blogisphere lately and am amazed no one is joining the dots in regards to some of the biggest stores of late. Strangely enough, to me they are all about the same issue. Some stories are… Is Windows Getting Morbidly Obese? Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That’s Why The Yahoo [...]

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Tags: Apple · Development · Microsoft

Sony makes a decent VTR – About TIME.

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: codecs · Development · Film Making · Post Production · Sony · Standards

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, [...]

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Tags: Development · Microsoft

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 [...]

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Tags: Development · IPTV · P2P · Standards

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, [...]

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Tags: Development · digital signage · IPTV · Standards