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Entries Tagged as 'DRM'

ABC (Australia’s public broadcaster) goes Microsoft Silverlight

August 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

UPDATE: Angelo Tilocca has contacted me and has pointed out what we both consider to be a misunderstanding.  To clear it all up, let me quote him in regards to the use of Microsoft and Silverlight by the ABC.

Thanks James.

Confirming that ABC Commercial has launched its integrated ABC Shop
Media Player and its Downloads [...]

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Tags: Adobe · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight · codecs · flash

A fly in Steve’s soup (Apple’s path to online video)

August 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

There has been much discussion over the motives behind Steve Jobs not allowing Abode Flash player on the iPhone.  In general, as a developer, there is no reason why flash lite could not work on the iPhone. Full version of flash, yes that is questionable, but not out of the question either.  The real reason, [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · FinalCutPro · IPTV · codecs · flash

The tend towards an open STB continues.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea.  Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced.  [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · Film Making · IPTV · Microsoft · Sony · Standards

Music Downloads, a panel discussion with downloaders and Artists.

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Recently “Insight” an SBS TV show that holds panel discussions did a story called “MiTunes“.  This panel is made up of younger confessed downloaders.  A number of local semi successful artists and some heads of record labels and industry organizations.
Unfortunately, there was considerable miss-information based around the fact that most of these people are mis-informed [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV

Adobe, the Apple killer.

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

If you follow my blog, you will notice that I take a lot of effort in looking at Adobe and what they are doing with their flash technology. To help position this post, let me first refer to previous posts in reverse chronological order:
Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation: where I discuss pitfalls in Adobe’s plans, [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · IPTV · P2P · flash