JamieG Analysis

Canon has slated the release of a new camera that will put H.264/AVC into the spot light recently.  I have written much over the years about how H.264 will eventually take over as the standardised codec of choice. The Canon HG20/HG21 is the camera that will make consumers love AVC.
See Gizmoto review here.
The thing that [...]

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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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There has been a lot of talk about YouTube offering higher quality content. I did hear about this a while ago, but was unable to find any.  I thought it may have been a delay in offering this new feature to the rest of the world.
Recently we created a new show reel and so I [...]

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A while back I reported that we would soon see portable flash momory based, high quality recorders to strip onto an HD-SDI based camera available.
Well here is a great first attempt at this technology..
From http://www.convergent-design.com/ we have the Flash XDR (See some cool comments here)
This device makes any HD-SDI camera capable of recording better then [...]

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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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